Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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