Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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