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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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