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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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 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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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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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
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Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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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.
