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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
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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