It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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