Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

“Find em, fool em, fuck em, forget em”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“You're just a side dish not the main course!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Resentment makes anything possible.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“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.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her
shoes off, finds 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

“I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Jealously lives with insecurity!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

He says, "Your husband fucked my wife."
We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him.
"My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“It takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Desire is a beast that must be fed!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Falling in love is like falling off a building-it doesn't hurt till the end.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“You can't question what has no answer. If I knew then it would not be true love. It would have because attached. I love you because this reason, or that reason. Real love has no because attached.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“The most jealous and insecure are the ones who are guilty of betrayal. The ones who are the angriest are those who are pulling cons themselves, only to find out they're being conned as well. A thief hates to be robbed, and a cheater always wants you to be loyal while they are being unfaithful. When suspicions arise and the questions start, they are always defensive, always volatile. A thief takes being robbed personally, the same way a player falls apart when he finds out he is being played.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“If I was going to date anybody, I had to see how they were living first.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Love ain't never been a rational beast.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

A man knows if he loves a woman in three months, if not three days, but what he desires in three hours, if that is all he desires, he should never get from you in three hundred years.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“That's what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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

— 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

“Jokes are used to hide the truth!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do..”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“We shed the skins of who we used to be!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey