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

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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
Perfect
Reality
Anything
Fantasies
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Sex

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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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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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