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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
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Caviar
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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