Erica Jong Quotes
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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'And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli'
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.
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For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
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I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
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If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.
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The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
