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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

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
Long
Chastity
Mountains
Miles
Chosen
Bed
Distance
Mountain
Away

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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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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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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