Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Home is where your books are.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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