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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Think
Mine
Thinking
Along
Saying
Keep
Persons
Person
Come
Truck
Right
Mines

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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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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.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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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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