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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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