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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
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Teaching
Beautiful
Courage
Women
Talent
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Life
Dark
Rare
Success
Leads
Everyone
Female
Inspirational
Follow
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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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 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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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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