The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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