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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

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
Book
Need
Needs
Trying
Finish
Necessarily
Inspire
Read
Everything

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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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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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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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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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