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.
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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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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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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