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In loving life you love what can’t survive.

Erica Jong

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 JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG

Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
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
The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONG

Awakened Service Soul Through
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONG

Beat Beaten Best Herself Need Slave
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONG

Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONG

Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONG

Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG

Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG

Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONG

Anger Disappoint Hope Really
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONG

Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings

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