Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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