Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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