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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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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
Morality
Monogamy
Exhaustion
Cynical
Driven
Finally

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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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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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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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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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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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