Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

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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.

Eric Jerome Dickey
Can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

Eric Jerome Dickey
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.

Eric Jerome Dickey
Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

Eric Jerome Dickey
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!

Eric Jerome Dickey
Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

Eric Jerome Dickey
Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.

Eric Jerome Dickey
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.

Eric Jerome Dickey
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

Eric Jerome Dickey
It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Eric Jerome Dickey
Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

Eric Jerome Dickey
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.

Eric Jerome Dickey
It takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Eric Jerome Dickey
She [Michelle] was giving me the same motions and moans she had been giving somebody else. I wasn't loving her, I was stabbing her. She accepted the pain. We finished and lay next to each other like strangers.

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

Eric Jerome Dickey
Sometimes grasping words sounded desperate, or expecting, and ruined a damn good thing. Let it ride.

Eric Jerome Dickey