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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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New York City
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Erica Mann Jong
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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