How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGThe future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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