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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

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
Generation
Generations
Perhaps
Lost
Right
Every
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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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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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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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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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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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