Erica Jong Quotes About Love
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When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
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Love is serene and calm
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Hate generalizes; love is particular.
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