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
ERICA JONGNarrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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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 trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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 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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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