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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.

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
Air
Liquid
Elements
Realities
Perhaps
Solid
Turn
Crucial
Combines
Imagination
Stone
Ignite
Turns
Somehow
Imaginations
Reality
Stones
Venice
Make
Fantasy
Fantasies

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