I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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