Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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