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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.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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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.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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