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

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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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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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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Love gives without taking
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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