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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
Adaptability
Singularity
Wrong
Shows
Mind
Something

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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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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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