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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

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
Joy
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Fun
Partner
Quality
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Perfect
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True
Partners
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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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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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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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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