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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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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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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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