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 JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Home is where your books are.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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