Erica Jong Quotes
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
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By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.
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Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
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To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
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There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Perfection is a disease of a nation.
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
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When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
