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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
Things
Like
Caviar
Acquired
Taste
Courage
Fear
Always

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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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