Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.
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Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.