Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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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 don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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