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Out Quotes by Erica Jong
- There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get…
- A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells…
- Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the…
- The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
- Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
- I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many…
- I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out…
- It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the…
- There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtshiponly backward. You try to start again but get…
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