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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

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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
Aphrodisiac
Genius
Strong

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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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