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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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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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Italy
America
Spain
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Hollywood

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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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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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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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