If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGA book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Home is where your books are.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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 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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Solitude is un-American.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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