Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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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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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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