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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

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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
Endears
Misery
Friends
Love

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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Love gives without taking
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Solitude is un-American.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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