Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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