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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

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
Hypocrisy
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Great
Men
Variance
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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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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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 have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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