Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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