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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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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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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I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.
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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
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A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.
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I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.
