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Inspirational Quotes by Erica Jong

54 Inspirational quotes by Erica Jong

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Erica Jong says that fear can push us to act, and she links loneliness to the birth of poetry. She believes love begins with loving oneself, and that true power is the freedom to grow something beautiful like roses. She also suggests writing first drafts as if no one will ever read them.

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In loving life you love what can't survive...

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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

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Is perception equivalent to existence?

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Keeping a journal implies hope.

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I look forward and see myself look back.

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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

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The soul is awakened through service.

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She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study...

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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry...

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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

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How could one create life with someone who represented death?

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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full…

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Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

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At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be…

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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

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And what if I don't want forgiveness?

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There is a rhythm to the ending...

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Why does life need evidence of life?

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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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Because I loved myself, I was loved.

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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

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Blaming women is always in fashion.

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I knew I was in England by the smell.

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I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

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Courage is the only Magic worth having.

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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

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Anger is really disappointed hope.

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Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

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Solitude is considered un-American.

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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

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You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

“Is life much too long for an immortal?”

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.