The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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 have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Solitude is un-American.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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