How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGMy mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Home is where your books are.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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