And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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