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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
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Erica Mann Jong
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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