The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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