#ever

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 #cover #ever #fool

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. ↗

— Erica Jong

#became #even #first #getting #i

I remember everything but forgive anyway. ↗

— Erica Jong

#everything #forgive #i #i remember #remember

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#deceived #fortune #good #good fortune #ill

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#badly #beatnik #beatniks #good #got

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#about #afternoon #better #better world #blankets

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#i #intended #never #person

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#every #game #going #know #play

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#everybody #i #like #person #realize

I would like to play every day. Whether or not that happens, we'll see. ↗