Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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