652 Quotes by Erica Jong

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    Most sex doesn’t really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that’s pretty rare.

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    Sex doesn’t disappear, it just changes forms.

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    What we remember lacks the hard edge of fact. To help us along we create little fictions, highly subtle and individual scenarios which clarify and shape our experience. The remembered event becomes a fiction, a structure made to accommodate certain feelings. This is obvious to me. If it weren’t for these structures, art would be too personal for the artist to create, much less for the audience to grasp. Even film, the most literal of all the arts, is edited. – Jerzy Kosinski.

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    Since flesh can’t stay, we pass the words along.

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    Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.

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    I’m not classically pretty; I’ve always been too heavy; I’ve had thyroid disease and it’s very hard for me to lose weight – but I’ve always had men pursue me. I’ve always had that ‘it’ thing. God knows why. Maybe it’s pheromones, I don’t know.

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    I think poetry is the best thing I do. It’s certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

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    You don’t get to choose what you get famous for and you don’t get to control which of your life’s many struggles gets to stand for you.

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    I’m very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

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