In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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