There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity.

Erica Jong
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  1. Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! - Jonathan Safran Foer

  2. You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't. - Ann Herendeen

  3. I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

  4. God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”) - Richard Matheson

  5. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Anonymous

More Quotes By Erica Jong
  1. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

  2. A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

  3. One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

  4. A lie never grows old.

  5. The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

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