Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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