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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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 professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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