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Surviving means being born over and over.

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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Life
Surviving

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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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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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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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