In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say 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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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