It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGMy reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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