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 JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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