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Erica Jong Quotes
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My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live (Erica Jong Quotes)
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul (Erica Jong Quotes)
I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear (Erica Jong Quotes)
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture... Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man (Erica Jong Quotes)
But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch! (Erica Jong Quotes)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads (Erica Jong Quotes)
But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men secrete in their private places (Erica Jong Quotes)
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child (Erica Jong Quotes)
We’ve lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars (Erica Jong Quotes)
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you (Erica Jong Quotes)
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have (Erica Jong Quotes)
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it’s a wonderful way to spend one’s life (Erica Jong Quotes)
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more (Erica Jong Quotes)