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«Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.»
Author: Erica Jong
«It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.»
«Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed»
«Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.»
Author: Erica Jong
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chiefly, ears, Hollywood, lately, locate, located, locates, locating, The American
«Solitude is un-American.»
«I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.»
«When I was a ten-year-old book worm 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»
Author: Erica Jong
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Books
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amaze, authors, dust jacket, icon, icons, jacket, jackets, picture book, provoke, remote, worm
«To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.»
Author: Erica Jong
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husbands, immigration, officials, refugee, refugees, revolutionary, routinely, symbolically, take away, wives
«Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted.»
Author: Erica Jong
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beater, beaters, chest, complained, frigid, hunters, Learning to, pregnancies, pregnancy, unresponsive, wanton, wantons, wild man, wilted, worrying
«There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.»
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