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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

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
Thinks
Everyone
Hard
Thinking
Guarded

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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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