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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Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportunities and time to get out of some of these holes.
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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.
