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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

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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
Locked
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Study
Important
Thing

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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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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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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