Erica Jong Quotes
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.
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Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
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After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.
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That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano.
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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
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Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
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Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.
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I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
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If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.
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I was never the girl next door.
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Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. And it has been proven as much of an illusion in Stalinist Russia as it proven an illusion in pre-Hitler Germany. Communism in anything but name was abandoned in Russia when the Five-Year Plan was substituted for the New Economic Policy (NEP) after Lenin’s death.
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The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
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I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.
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I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.
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My daughter lives in an apartment hovel in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for!
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
