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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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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Procrastinating
Procrastination
Judged
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Fear
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Procrastinate

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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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