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ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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