As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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