Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGNo one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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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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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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