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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

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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
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Joy
Pain
Feel
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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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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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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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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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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