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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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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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.
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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
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I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
