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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

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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
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Irony
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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.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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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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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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