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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

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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
Expands
Merely
Dog
Heart
Never
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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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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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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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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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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