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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

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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
Experience
Complete
Chronicles
Humans
Image
Recorded
Enough
Photography
Magical
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Creatures
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Creates
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Existence
Camera
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Cameras
Chronicle

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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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