Erica Jong Quotes
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Love is serene and calm
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In freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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I think we’re men and women more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
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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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Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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I knew I was in England by the smell.
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From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.