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Erica Jong

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Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.
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Erica Jong's father (a vaudevillian performer), his two pieces of advice for her. Given in the Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1994, page 44.

 
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