I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The soul is awakened through service.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of 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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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