The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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