Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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