Erica Jong Quotes
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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind of fill these ramifications of some PTSD.
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My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.
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Given enough time, even evolution evolves.
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In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.
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I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
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I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.
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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
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A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.
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The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.
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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
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All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
