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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

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
Messengers
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Body
Soul
Mind
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Inhabitants

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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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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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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Love gives without taking
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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