Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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