Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Home is where your books are.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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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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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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