Erica Jong Quotes
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.
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(In answer to the question: In the extreme case, if it was just you doing all the code, and the rest of the world quietly used it, would it make sense to give it away free? Unless you're particularly grateful for other free things you've got off the Net, would the answer be No?':)
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I like vintage stores - all over the world. I have a little collection of my favorite stores here and there. Other than that, I love online shopping.
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
