Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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