Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONGOften 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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