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.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Home is where your books are.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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 camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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