Erica Jong Quotes
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
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Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.
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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
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It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
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Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
