Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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