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.
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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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