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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Life
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Raft
Fall
Palm
Write
Palms
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Heart
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Make
Ocean
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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