Erica Jong - People Quotes

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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 it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more

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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.

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You cannot tell the truth when words are corrupted. Our country was founded on the notion that the plain words of the people are more important than the fancy words of kings.

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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

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Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.

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The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

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The only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

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Tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.

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Certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

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People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

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Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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