Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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