Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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