I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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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.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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