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The [North Korean] side will continue to take a patient and flexible manner and actively participate in the six-party talks process and make its own contributions to the progress of the talks,


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ERICA JONG In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can e...
ERICA JONG Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
ERICA JONG Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by...
ERICA JONG When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they ...
ERICA JONG The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as p...
ERICA JONG I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pea...
ERICA JONG It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
ERICA JONG Fear of Flying
ERICA JONG In my view, everything was indeed about her. His romancing me was about her, his conversation about ...
ERICA JONG Surviving meant being born over and over.
ERICA JONG Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
ERICA JONG The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war b...
ERICA JONG We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG