Erica Jong quotes - page 2

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. (Erica Jong)
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality. View quote
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. View quote
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you. View quote
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Is perception equivalent to existence? View quote
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I look forward and see myself look back. View quote
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How could one create life with someone who represented death? View quote
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. View quote
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Keeping a journal implies hope. View quote
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. View quote
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It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait. (Erica Jong)
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present. View quote
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Hate generalizes; love is particular. View quote
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world. View quote
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach. View quote
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Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm. View quote
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Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound. View quote
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry. View quote
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others. View quote
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound. View quote
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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem. (Erica Jong)
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. View quote
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. View quote
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it. View quote
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Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer. View quote
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