I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without 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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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