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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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