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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

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
Cannot
Soul
Hath
Judged
Passion
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Another

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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Love gives without taking
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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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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