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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

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
Something
Sign
Usually
Fear
Right

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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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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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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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