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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

Erica Jong

Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG

Endear Friend Love Misery Our
Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Equivalent Existence Perception
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONG

Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
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
ERICA JONG

Brighter Could Darkest Even Just Know Night Special Star Think Truly
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONG

Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG

Love Loved Myself
I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONG

Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONG

Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG

Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG

Create Death Life One Represented Someone
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.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONG

Direction Face Long Matter Right Size Step

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