“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.”
Source: Fear of Flying
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Erica Jong 95
Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942Related quotes

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