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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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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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