Erica Jong Quotes
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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I hate clothes. As soon as I get home every day, I take off as many clothes as possible.
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It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
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I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
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When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
