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.
ERICA JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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