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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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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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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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