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Most sex is not really intimate.

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
Intimate
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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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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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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