Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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