I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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