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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.

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
Religion
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Lives
Find
Trying
Connect
Believe
Satisfying
Life
Organized
People
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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