In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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