Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Home is where your books are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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