I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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