A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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