Erica Jong - Truth Quotes

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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

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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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We don't expect them to tell the truth about power any more than we expect movie stars to tell the truth about love.

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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

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