A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Home is where your books are.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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