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Courage is the only Magic worth having.

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
Magic
Courage
Worth

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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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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.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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