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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
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Trying
Connect
Believe
Satisfying
Life
Organized
People
Lead
Religion
Force
Lives

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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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