If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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