I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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