I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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