Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.
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it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.