People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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