Erica Jong Short Quotes

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had...

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Since flesh can't stay,
we pass the words along.

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... if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

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Having a baby with him meant marrying that face forever.

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Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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I would have said nonsense
to please you
& frequently did.

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Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

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Poetry... comes blood-warm straight out of the unconscious.

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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

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Sex without love is a cancerous cigarette we willingly smoke.

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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

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How could one create life with someone who represented death?

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... jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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Change
is the world's only fixity, and fixity
her foremost lie.

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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

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Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

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The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.

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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study...

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What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

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Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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