Erica Jong Quotes
Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
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Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
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I want to love life.
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He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .
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Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.
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Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
