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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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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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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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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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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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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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