Erica Jong Quotes
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
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I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'
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Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.