The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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