Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGIt 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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