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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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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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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When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.
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I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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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.
