Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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