Erotic Quotes - Page 8

• Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

  Jim Morrison

  Heirs, Lasts, Alchemy

  "The lords, and The new creatures: poems".

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• Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

  Terence Fisher

  Halloween, Joy, Quality

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• Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states.

  Lorrie Moore

  Sex, Believe, Psychosis

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.166, Faber & Faber

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• There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe and relax. This is tantra.

  Janet Robertson

  Spiritual, Doors, Joy

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• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Philosophical, Mind

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Pain, Memories, Book

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• I almost never draw a completely naked man. He has to have at least a pair of boots or something on. To me, a fully dressed man is more erotic than a naked one. A naked man is, of course beautiful, but dress him in black leather or a uniform - ah, then he is more than beautiful, then he is sexy!

  Tom of Finland

  Beautiful, Sexy, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Beautiful, Blood, Vampire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

  Starhawk

  Falling In Love, Inspirational Love, Stars

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

  Randy Harrison

  Stopping, Done, Stuff

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• The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

  Lucian Freud

  Elements, Matter, Sides

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane

  Lucy Irvine

  Men, Clothes, Dresses

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• Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Moving, Historical, Woven

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• As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Vampire, Undead

  "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Talk DARK SHADOWS, Pulling from the TV Series, Deleted Scenes, a Sequel and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Eros doomed! I doubt it...eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Powerful, Crazy, People

  Interview with Greg Gerke, therumpus.net. December 05, 2011.

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• Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

  Dean Cavanagh

  Ballet, Mind, Surveillance

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• The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Thinking, Alternatives, Japanese Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one.

  Ville Valo

  Sex, Evening, Tvs

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• I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Identity, Living My Life, Femme

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

  Roger Scruton

  Party, Views, Imagination

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

  George Will

  People, Political, Reason

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• David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

  Miriam Toews

  Masters, Prose, Spares

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• Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.

  Anne Waldman

  Wise, Jewels, Desire

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