Erica Jong Quotes
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
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You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.
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I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.
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Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
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I am behind Kanye West for American President 100 per cent.
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Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.
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John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'
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Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
