Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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