Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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