Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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