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Erica Jong



Erica Jong




Quotes

Quotes by Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Fear of Flying, 1973
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
O Magazine, 2003
Love is everything it's cracked up to be -- It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
O Magazine, February 2004


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