Erica Jong Quotes
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.
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When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-make sure they know what they mean!
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
