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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I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
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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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The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
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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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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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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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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.
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My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
