A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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