Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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