Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Home is where your books are.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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