We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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