Erica Jong Quotes
In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.
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I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.
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During the year we'll start thinking about the dream lines, ... We seemed to have come up with some good lines here although after two games in 2002 we switched them all around.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.
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Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
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Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
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I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.
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We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.
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There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
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One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.
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I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
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In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
