Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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