Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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