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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

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
Getting
Intending
Friends
Glue
Talking
Invisible
Actually
Leaving
May
Friendship
Enough
Marriage
Years
Instead
Leave

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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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