It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.Erica Jong
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Erica Jong
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees husbands routinely do it to wives.
Erica Jong
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