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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Love gives without taking
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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