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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

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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
Someone
Much
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Gains
Thinking
Loving
Loss
Freedom
Doesn
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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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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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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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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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