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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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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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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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