Top 100 Jerome Dickey Quotes
#2. Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave.
Brandi L. Bates
#3. I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first?
Eric Jerome Dickey
#5. But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#11. But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#12. For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation ... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#13. And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#14. Falling in love is like falling off a building - it doesn't hurt till the end.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#16. Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#17. We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#21. Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#22. Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#23. People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#28. As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#29. I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#33. And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#34. Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#35. Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#37. It takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#38. Can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#41. 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
#42. If I carried Catherine to the top of Mount Corcovado and placed her before the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Jesus would close his eyes and turn his back on her. If she touched his feet, the six million stone tiles that covered the religious figure would catch fire and fall like fiery rain,
Eric Jerome Dickey
#44. We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites
Eric Jerome Dickey
#45. I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#46. 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
#52. Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#59. 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
#60. You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#61. The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#62. don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#63. A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times
Eric Jerome Dickey
#64. It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#66. I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#71. 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
#72. I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#73. 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
#74. Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#75. He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#76. 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
#77. It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#78. The heart define whom we are were attracted to. I was attracted to him, sexually, mentally and maybe even spiritually. And the heart decided for how long that inner madness would last.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#80. DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities
Eric Jerome Dickey
#86. She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#87. Marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#89. 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
#91. Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#93. What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#95. When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#98. 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.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#99. 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
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