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.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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