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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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