Erica Jong Quotes
It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Excess is excrement.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
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I don't have money. Monsanto has money.
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I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
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He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.
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I never put a price on a child.
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When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.
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Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.
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I wish I were better at… photography. Sometimes it feels like I can’t capture everything with just a pen.
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It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
