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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

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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
Dying
Dies
Young
Think
Thinking
Keats
Braver
Worshipped

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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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