Erica Jong Quotes
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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I have an incredibly high metabolism.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.
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When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.
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Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
