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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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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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