The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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