And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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