Erica Jong

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

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