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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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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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