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Surviving means being born over and over.

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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
Life
Surviving
Born
Means
Mean

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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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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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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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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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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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