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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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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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 still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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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 like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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The report indicated that people of a high level of this Syrian regime were implicated.
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Whether it's something happy or sad, I like to share everything with my mother.
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Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
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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.
