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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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