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 JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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