Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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