Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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