Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGDo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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