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.
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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