Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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