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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

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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
Knowledge
Faith
Heart
Mind
Logic

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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