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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Anything
Beginners
Without
Shakespeare
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Naked
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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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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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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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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