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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Crazy
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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