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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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
Loneliness
Marriage
Dead
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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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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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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