Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Home is where your books are.
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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.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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