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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
Confident
Seemed
Though
Friends
Envied
Everything
Secretly
Always
Practically
Cheerful
Terrified

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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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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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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Solitude is un-American.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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 are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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