Erica Mann Jong

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"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."	Life
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."	Ability, Age, Courage
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."	Life
"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."	Change, Friends, Intelligence
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."	Hope, Knowledge, Reading
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."	Honesty, Love, Truth
"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."	Acceptance, Art, Change
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."	Ability, Age, Courage
"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."	Age, Evil, Help

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