Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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