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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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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
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
Erica Jong
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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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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.
Erica Jong
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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