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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
Talent
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Life
Dark
Rare
Success
Leads
Everyone
Female
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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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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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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