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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

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
Courage
Takes
Life
Adventure
Lead

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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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