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

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
Love
Avoid
Saying
Anything

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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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Most sex is not really intimate.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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