The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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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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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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