Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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How 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.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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