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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

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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
Wrong
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Mind
Something
Adaptability
Singularity

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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