A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Solitude is un-American.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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 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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