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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
Flesh
Pass
Along
Stay
Since
Words

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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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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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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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