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Erica Jong Quotes

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1942

Topics

Hard Fiction Nonfiction

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

Robert H. Grubbs

Mother Money Child Building Nails

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Character Men People Deep Thinking

When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional, overwhelming moment. It was like I had been accepted.

Sterling K. Brown

Moment People Stage Emotional Up

The dialogue around climate change can often become mired in gloom and doom, which is understandable given the topic.

Change Climate Change Become Dialogue

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Success Yourself Chance Belief Your

The difference between playing a positive and a negative role is only in the portrayal.

Positive Negative Difference Role

Chelsea is always hard to break into, but I believe in myself, and if I work hard, then hopefully things will go well.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Work Myself Work Hard Believe Go

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

Leadership Leader Moral Vice High

I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

Me World Back Nice Little Things

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

Science Why Will Explain Tell Us

This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that's ridiculous.

Time Ridiculous Spread Quarterback

With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

Friendship People Friends You Okay

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