The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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 see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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