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Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love... (Erica Jong)
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. View quote
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends. View quote
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Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree. View quote
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And what if I don't want forgiveness? View quote
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye... View quote
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When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. View quote
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper. View quote
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it. View quote
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. View quote
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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. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story. (Erica Jong)
I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star. View quote
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. View quote
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They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time. View quote
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I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion. View quote
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. View quote
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. View quote
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Anger is really disappointed hope. View quote
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more. View quote
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. View quote
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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. (Erica Jong)
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book. View quote
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. View quote
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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. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare. View quote
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. View quote
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Erica Jong

Erica Jong - Image
Photo: Wes Washington, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Novelist
Born: March 26, 1942
Quotes count: 161
Wikipedia: Erica Jong

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