Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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 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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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