Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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