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One Quotes by Erica Jong
- When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
- No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How…
- Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
- Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give…
- The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
- How could one create life with someone who represented death?
- Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
- Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
- No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
- Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock.…
- Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
- No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race…
- When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen…
- Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
- You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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