Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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