Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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 future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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