I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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