Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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.
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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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If 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.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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.
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