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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

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
Future
Blocks
Past
Joys
Block
Misery
Merely
Shadow
Joy
Emphasizes
Present
Miseries

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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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