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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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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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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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