Erica Jong Quotes

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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All Ambivalence Dance Own Rhythm Tune Wonderful
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Camera Chronicle Create Enough Exist Existence Magical Must Transformation
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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Big Dog Expand Heart Love Many Merely never New Old replace Very
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Complete Creature Experience Feel Image Narrative Unless Record
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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Carry Momentum Own Word
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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Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
Why does life need evidence of life?
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Evidence Life Need
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Can Delegate Finally Motherhood Not
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Always Been Forty Past Put Record Six Some Straight Year
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Along Come Hit Keep Mine Person Right Say Truck
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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Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Conflict Literature Soul
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Creative Gitl Good Still
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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Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
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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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth

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