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"A Day in the Life ..." How To Save Your Own Life (1977)As quoted in Contemporary Poets, 3rd ed. by James Vinson (1980)As quoted in Mountain Moving Day by Elaine Gill (1973)as quoted in Necessary Losses, by Judith Viorst (1986)As quoted in Newsweek (June 23, 1986)

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I am devoted to those who endured, like Colette. It is easier ... to kiss the world a bitter goodbye than to go on working, writing, changing, enduring the slings & arrows of outrageous aging. Colette endured. And she wrote & wrote & wrote. Whenever I feel really depressed, I think of her & keep going.

Erica Jong

Erica Jong (b. 1942), U.S. poet and novelist. As quoted in Mountain Moving Day, by Elaine Gill (1973).

Colette (1873-1954) was a prolific French novelist.

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