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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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