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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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