Erica Jong Quotes
A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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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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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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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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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
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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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
