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One writes not by will but by surrender.

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
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Surrender

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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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