It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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