Erica Jong Quotes
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
Erica Jong
Quotes to Explore
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
Uzo Aduba
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
Katee Sackhoff
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
A. S. Byatt
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Dana Priest
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Nathalie Sarraute
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'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
Ilan Stavans
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I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
Ozwald Boateng
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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
Patricia Ireland
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz
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The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.
Brigham Young
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
William Hazlitt
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The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
Andrzej Stasiuk
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
Erica Jong
