Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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