Erica Jong Quotes
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.
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It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
