Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

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• early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

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  Late

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• She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

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  Stars, Powerful, Smart

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2003). “Between Lovers”, p.14, Penguin

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• every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

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  New Day, Miracle, Sunrise

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.31, Penguin

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• Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

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  Creativity, Creative, Bird

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• intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

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  Intimidating

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2009). “Resurrecting Midnight”, p.173, Penguin

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• i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

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  Forever, Ifs, I Can

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.117, Penguin

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• Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

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  Lust, Connections, Guarantees

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• the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

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  Mistake, People, Perfect

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• I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

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  Imagination, Pleasure, My Imagination

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.20, Penguin

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• Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction

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  Sex, Love Is, Soul

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• I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

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  Book, Past, Tree

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• For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run.

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  Running, Lying, Heart

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.94, Penguin

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• We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

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  Sweet, Sour Milk, Work Out

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2004). “Thieves' Paradise”, p.171, Penguin

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• marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

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  Men, Disappointing

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.212, Penguin

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• love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

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  Love Is, Obsessive Compulsive, Mental Illness

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• People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

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  Pain, People, Tragedy

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin

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• common sense is the enemy of romance

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  Common Sense, Romance, Enemy

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Waking with Enemies”, p.148, Penguin

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• when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

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  Honest, Betray, Honest With Yourself

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.119, Penguin

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• desire is a beast that must be fed!

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  Desire, Beast, Feds

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.85, Penguin

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• Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

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  Kissing, Men, Coward

  Eric Jerome Dickey (1999). “Cheaters”, E P Dutton

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• changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

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  Horse, Mean

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.195, Penguin

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• sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

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  Enemy, Waking, Stranger

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• nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

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  Tonight, Tomorrow

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• We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

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  Hypocrite, Trying, World

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2003). “Between Lovers”, p.32, Penguin

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• Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

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  Falling In Love, Jumping, Scary

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