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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Life
Full
Excuses
Hurt
Trick
Pain
Optimism
Inspirational
Tricks
Live
Idiot
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Feels
Motivation
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Love gives without taking
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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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.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Solitude is un-American.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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