People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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My 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.
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