Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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