Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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