Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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