I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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