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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

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
Atheist
Turbulent
Airplanes
Atheists
Airplane

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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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