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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

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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Solitude
Meditation
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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