We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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