It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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