Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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.
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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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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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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 soul is awakened through service.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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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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