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People Quotes by Erica Jong
- 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…
- I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
- Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true…
- Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the…
- Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
- Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
- All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
- I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a…
- When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to…
- 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.…
- People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against…
- Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think…
- Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
- Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
- Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want…
- Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's…
- Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about…
- I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are…
- In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when…
- When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to…
- Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle