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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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