K T Jong Quotes & Sayings

Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given. — Kim Jong Il

Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? — Erica Jong

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right. — Erica Jong

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves ! — Erica Jong

One writes not by will but by surrender. — Erica Jong

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. — Adam Johnson

It was an aspiring neighbourhood that retained a faint edge of slum, typical of Shanghai. Pensioners in Mao-era padded jackets would sit on doorsteps playing mah-jong, oblivious to the Prada-clad girls sweeping past on their way to work. — Hyeonseo Lee

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. — Erica Jong

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped. — Erica Jong

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest. — Erica Jong

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. — Erica Jong

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait. — Erica Jong

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. — Erica Jong

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. — Erica Jong

Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions ... — Erica Jong

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him. — Mitchell Reiss

The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader. — Kim Jong Il

I learned a long time ago that most of my family and friends had plastic hearts. Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken. — Lisa De Jong

Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends. — David Letterman

I wish that I am a star, shining for every TripleS in every corner of the earth. — Kim Kyu-jong

Why is it so hard to be human being? I wonder. Why do we have to surrender? And to what? What if you refused to believe in a higher power? What if you thought you were the only trustworthy higher power? I have done that all my life and I know it doesn't work. You are not enough. Your will is not enough. But God? God is a pagan dream, conjured out of neediness. — Erica Jong

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box. — Erica Jong

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. — Erica Jong

Make a conscious decision, no matter what it is, and know that that choice will have consequences. — Eddie De Jong

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented. — Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. — Erica Jong

As we don't live in a perfect world, try to spend 80% of your time doing important but not urgent activities — Eddie De Jong

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you. — Erica Jong