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Love is everything it's cracked up to be

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
Cracked
Everything
Love

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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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