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Love is everything it's cracked up to be

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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
Everything
Love
Cracked

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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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