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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

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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
Avoid
Saying
Anything
Love

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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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