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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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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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