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

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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
Scared
Fear
Look
Looks
Procrastinate
Every
Procrastinating
Procrastination
Judged
Excuse

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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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