Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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