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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

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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
Torture
Writers
Moments
Self
Doubters
Brief
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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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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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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 takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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