Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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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 do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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