Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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