A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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 city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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