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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Art
Souls
Political
Including
Happens
Masters
Someone
Media
Soul
Happen
Things
Courses
Candidates
Course
Advertising
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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