Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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