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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
Erica Jong
Solitude is un-American.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
Erica Jong
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
Erica Jong
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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?
Erica Jong
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
Erica Jong
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
Erica Jong
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
Erica Jong
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
Erica Jong
Anger is really disappointed hope.
Erica Jong
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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