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.
ERICA JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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