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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Erica Jong

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONG

Backward Courtship End Like Marriage Rhythm
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Blame Hand Happen Life Own Take Terrible Thing
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Bluntest Instrument Silence
Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Anger Disappoint Hope Really
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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Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Must Given Something
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.
ERICA JONG

Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
Why does life need evidence of life?
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Evidence Life Need
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Being Between Body Create Different Do Drive Everything Human Little Men Office Only Simultaneously Tractor Women Work
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG

Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Compass Utter Discipline Edit Freedom
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Excuse Full Life Live Pain
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
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.
ERICA JONG

Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember

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