I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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