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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

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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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Words
Flesh
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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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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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