Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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