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Erica Jong

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

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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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"Let Catholics build their own churches and works."

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"Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers."

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"There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal."

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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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"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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"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God."
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"Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household."
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
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