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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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Solitude is un-American.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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