Erica Jong Quotes
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
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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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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.