Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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