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Erica Jong: There is nothing...

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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

Source: The narrator (Isadora Wing), in Fear of Flying, ch. 9 (1973).
-- Erica Jong, (Mar 26 1942-____), US author, poet; She is noted for Fear of Flying, 1973 and Parachutes and Kisses, 1984.


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