It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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Home is where your books are.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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