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Love gives without taking

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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
Taking
Gives
Without
Giving
Love
Sweet

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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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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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