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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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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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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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