More from Erica Jong
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
Erica JongErica Jong Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica JongErica Jong How could one create life with someone who represented death?
Erica JongErica Jong Home is where your books are.
Erica JongErica Jong Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
Erica JongErica Jong We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
Erica JongErica Jong Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
Erica JongErica Jong In loving life you love what can’t survive.
Erica JongErica Jong What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
Erica JongErica Jong 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 JongErica Jong Anger is really disappointed hope.
Erica JongErica Jong People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
Erica JongErica Jong 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.
Erica JongErica Jong The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Erica JongErica Jong To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Erica JongErica Jong I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
Erica JongErica Jong
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.
Jurgen KloppJurgen Klopp I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.
Jurgen KloppJurgen Klopp I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. Heinlein It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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