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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Erica Mann Jong

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Erica Mann Jong

 America Entertainment

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

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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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 Art Talent

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

Erica Mann Jong

 Autonomy

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged . . . I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

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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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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

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 God Hollywood

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

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 Marriage

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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 Envy