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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

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
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Life
Burrows
Literacy
Passive
Profound
Reading
Experience
Book

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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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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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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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