Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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