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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

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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Fantasies
Fantasy
Sex
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Reality

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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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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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