I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
ERICA JONGIf you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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