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How could one create life with someone who represented death?

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
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Death
Someone
Life
Represented

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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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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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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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