Erica Jong Quotes
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
Erica Jong
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
Gary Carter
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
Sally Mann
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
Damien Rice
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
Madeleine Peyroux
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
Harish Rawat
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I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'
Omari Hardwick
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
W. H. Auden
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
Sam Crawford
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We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.
Vaclav Havel
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You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
Erica Jong