The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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