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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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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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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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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Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.
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Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.
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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.
