No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGHow wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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