It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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