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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

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
Exceptional
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Called
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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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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