A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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