Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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