Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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