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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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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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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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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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