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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Erica Jong

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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
Thinking
Along
Saying
Keep
Persons
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Come
Truck
Right
Mines
Think
Mine

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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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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.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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