I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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