Erica Jong Quotes
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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Our songs all carry the same way.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.
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And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
