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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

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
Acquired
Taste
Courage
Fear
Always
Things
Like
Caviar

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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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