Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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