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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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