Erica Jong Quotes
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
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There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.
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Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
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And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.
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They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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When you have five little kids, you're not going to open Mindy Kaling's latest book. You're playing with your kids.
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.
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A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.
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Taking America Back' is a wake-up call for responsible self-government...
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.
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I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It’s astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
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It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
