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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Women
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Life
Dark
Rare
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Everyone
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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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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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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