Author: Erica Jong

Cites

• Mishkan Tefilah (1)
  • IN: Fear of Dying (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Days pass and the years vanish, and we walk sightless among miracles. Lord, fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing; Let there be moments when Your Presence, like lightning, illuminates the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever we gaze, that the bush burns unconsumed. And we, clay touched by God, will reach out for holiness, and exclaim in wonder, "How filled with awe is this place and we did not know it!"
    FROM: A Reform Siddur, (2007), Book, US
• Lord Byron (1)
  • IN: Fear of Flying (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone, And their revenge is as the tiger's spring, Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real Torture is theirs -- what they inflinct they feel. They are right; for man, to man so oft unjust, Is always so to women; one sole bond Awaits them -- treachery is all their trust; Taught to conceal, their bursting hearts despond Over their idol, till some wealthier lust Buys them in marriage -- and what rests beyond A thankless husband -- next, a faithless lover -- Then dressing, nursing, praying -- and all's over. Some take a lover, some take drams or prayers, Some mind their household, others dissipation, Some run away, and but exchange their cares, Losing the advantage of a virtuous station; Few changes e'er can better their affairs, Theirs being an unnatural situation, From the dull palace to the dirty hovel: Some play the devil, and then write a novel.
    FROM: Don Juan, (1824), Poem, UK

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• Tom Robbins (1)
  • IN: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here should be a picture of my favorite apple. It is also a nude & bottle. It is also a landscape. There are no such things as still lifes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US