“I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.”

—  Erica Jong , book Fear of Flying

Source: Fear of Flying

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Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942

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