I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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