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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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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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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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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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