The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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