Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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