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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

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
Life
Friend
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Dies
Turns
Born
Beloved
Fall
Poetry
Moments
Baby
Love
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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 camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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 actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Solitude is un-American.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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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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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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