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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
Love
Sweet
Taking
Gives
Without
Giving

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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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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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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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