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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
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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 see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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