I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Home is where your books are.
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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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