Erica Jong Quotes
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
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There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.
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People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
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Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!
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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.
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Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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We are trying to find out if we can use the worms or their products to lesson the impact of allergies
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
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I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think. We have discovered that helping victims of trauma find the words to describe what has happened to them is profoundly meaningful, but usually it is not enough. The act of telling the story doesn’t necessarily alter the automatic physical and hormonal responses of bodies that remain hypervigilant, prepared to be assaulted or violated at any time. For real change to take place, the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present.
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Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
