Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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And the trouble is, 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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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