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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.

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
Caviar
Things
Eye
Soon
Denounce
Like
Evil
Taste
Gaze
Fear
Courage
Acquired
Live
Trust
Look
Joy
Cult
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Ready
Elsewhere
Make
Least
Useless
Fixes
Always
Suffering
Guilt

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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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