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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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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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