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Is perception equivalent to existence?

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
Equivalent
Perception
Existence

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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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