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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
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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 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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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