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

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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
Solitude
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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