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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

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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
Seemed
Though
Friends
Envied
Everything
Secretly
Always
Practically
Cheerful
Terrified
Confident

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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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