Erica Jong - God Quotes

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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

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Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.

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She'd a pow'rful Belief in God, whom she believ'd had a more sympathetick Ear to Black Voices than to White ones, owing to the greater Suff'rings of their Possessors.

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