Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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