Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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