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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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