Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Solitude is un-American.
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