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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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
Greater
Suffering
Others
Believe
People

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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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