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.
ERICA JONGOften 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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