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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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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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