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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

Erica Jong

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONG

Being Brave Crack Everything Fighting Live Risk Worth
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONG

Awakened Service Soul Through
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG

Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG

Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG

Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONG

Courage Dark Everyone Follow Lead Place Talent
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG

Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONG

Believe Element Function Our Unhappiness
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.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONG

Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONG

Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG

Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace

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