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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
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Keats
Braver
Worshipped
Dying
Dies

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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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