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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Someone
Pocket
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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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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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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