Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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