Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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