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Keeping a journal implies hope.

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
Implies
Journal
Keeping
Hope

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Surviving means being born over and over.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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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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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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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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