Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Home is where your books are.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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