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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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.
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My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
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You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
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As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
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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.
