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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with E >> Quotes By Erica Jong |
| Quote #1: | "Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads." |
| Quote #2: | "Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame." |
| Quote #3: | "Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends." |
| Quote #4: | "Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't." |
| Quote #5: | "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." |
| Quote #6: | "I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far." |
| Quote #7: | "I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other." |
| Quote #8: | "If you don't risk anything you risk even more." |
| Quote #9: | "Jealousy is all the fun you think they had." |
| Quote #10: | "A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive." |
| Quote #11: | "Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." |
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