I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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 exhortation.
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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