A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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