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Erica Jong, Fear of Flying Quotes: I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
         

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.


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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.



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Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.



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We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.



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Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.



We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

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Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.



There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

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