Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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