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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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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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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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
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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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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.