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Anger is really disappointed hope.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Disappointed
Anger
Hope
Inspirational
Really

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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