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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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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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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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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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.
