Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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