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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

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
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Fool
Wisdom
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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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