It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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