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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.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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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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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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