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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

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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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Murky
Someone
Pocket
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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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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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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