Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.