Erica Jong Quotes
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It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.
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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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Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.