The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGMy reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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 vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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