The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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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.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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