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.
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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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 best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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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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