Erica Jong Quotes
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
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If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
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You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
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History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
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A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
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I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.
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I should have had the pickle.
