Erica Jong Quotes
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.
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My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
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I take my mobile phone and iPad wherever I go. I like to switch off when I'm on holiday, but I always check emails in case someone at home is trying to get hold of me.
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Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?
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Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.
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Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
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I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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Home is where your books are.
