I look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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