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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

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
May
Live
Right
Nemesis
Feel
Miserable
Feels
Blame
Wonderful
Forever
Someone

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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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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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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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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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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Love gives without taking
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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