How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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