It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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