Erica Jong Quotes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
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Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
