Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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