My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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