It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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