A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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