Erica Jong Quotes
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
Quotes to Explore
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.
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When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would make us blond. Obviously, I have very dark hair and olive skin, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be blond, of course. It never worked.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
