Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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 trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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