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Erica Jong1 quote
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. — Erica Jong · 1977James Joyce1 quote
He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast. — James Joyce · 1914Jerry Seinfeld1 quote
Why do I always have the feeling that everybody’s doing something better than me on Saturday afternoons? — Jerry Seinfeld · 1991Jonathan Safran Foer1 quote
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005Mary Shelley1 quote
Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. — Mary Shelley · 1818