Erica Jong Quotes
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
Quotes to Explore
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
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I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
