It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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