Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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