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.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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