The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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 exhortation.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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