The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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