Erica Jong Quotes
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
Quotes to Explore
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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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'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.
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I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I'm a big fan of corsets. A woman's body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
