Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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