A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONGNarrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Often 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.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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