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“It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.”

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Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'. more

“Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.”

Matter America Politics Language Achieve Conversation Harder Debate Outcomes Telling The Truth Drowning Orwellian Already Won

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.”

Persons Language Poet

Book:how to save your own life

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“Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.”

Lasts Law Court Our Society Resorts Stubbornness

Book:Fear of Fifty

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“A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.”

Said Stories Night Literature Novel Affair Short Story One Night Love Affair One Night Stand

Book:how to save your own life

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“There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.”

Loneliness

Book:how to save your own life

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“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.”

People War Desire Brain Practice Magic Rational Primitive Sophisticated Stem Imperatives Coexist Love And War

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“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.”

People World Two Sometimes Sex Flying Indifferent Disadvantages One Friend That One Friend Coupling

Author:Erica Jong

“Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.”

Stars Memories Possession Transient

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.”

People Age Certain Dies Old Age Insane Vulnerability Forty Funeral Old People Confirmation

Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“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.”

Feels Humans Enough Existence Creatures Photography Transformation Cameras Narrative Chronicles

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

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