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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

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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
Partly
Makers
Given
Remember
Soul
Always
Wrought
Maker

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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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