Erica Jong Quotes
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.
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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
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The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
