Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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