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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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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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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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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 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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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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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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