Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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 city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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