A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGOften 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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My 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.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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