Quotes
Authors
Erica Jong
"Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple." --
Erica Jong
#Simple Quotes
#Actors Quotes
#Television Quotes
“Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.”
“I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess.”
“If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.”
“Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.”
“I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.”
“The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.”
“I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.”
“We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't.”
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