The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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 a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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