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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

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
Alone
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Must
Damnably
Feels
Cosmically
Writing
Banished
World
Banish
Profession
Lonely

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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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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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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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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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