Erica Jong Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
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Many people who experience illness imagine that everyone else is blissfully getting on with life in perfect health-and this illusion compounds their suffering.
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We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
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My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
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It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.
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Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.
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You see the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
