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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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