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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Erica Jong

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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
Head
Voices
Voice
Guilt
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Viciously
Seems
Deeper
Accuse
Ever
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Blunt
Outside
Hammer
Inside
Hammers
Silence
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