No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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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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