Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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