Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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