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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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.
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There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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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.
