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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 went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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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 actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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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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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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