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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Erica Jong

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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Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Any Courage Lead Life Take
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Circle Get Horrible Incomplete Look Lose Older Wonderful
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONG

Anything Far Interesting Life More Plot Say
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.
ERICA JONG

Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONG

Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG

Create Death Life One Represented Someone
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONG

Carry Momentum Own Word
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG

Love Loved Myself
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONG

Always Attitude Change History Line People Proceed Social Straight Think
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG

Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True

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