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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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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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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Television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.
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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
