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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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 Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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