Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGAlways do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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