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I remember everything but forgive anyway.

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
Forgive
Anyway
Forgiving
Remember
Everything

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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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