Erica Jong Quotes
She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.
Quotes to Explore
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I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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I’ll always defend the people I love even though I’m as terrifying as a baby penguin.
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For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.
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I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.
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I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.
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You're mine, Pagan Moore. You will always be mine.
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I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.
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I'm newly widowed, so I've gone from having a life partner, and having another brain to make decisions with, to doing it all on my own and questioning what I'm doing. I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.
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In my mind ran the immortal line of James Thurber, that phrase at once so intensely comic and so pregnant with suggestions of unnameable terror: "Now we go up to the garrick and become warbs." We were going up to the garrick all right, and warbs suddenly seemed the least terrifying of the things we might become
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She is mine. -Ethan.
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Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I play a lot of classical music around the house.
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I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
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She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.
