We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Home is where your books are.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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