It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I 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.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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