Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes - Page 2

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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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• only a fool would argue with a fool!

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  Fool, Arguing

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• hate is cancer of the soul!

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  Hate, Cancer, Soul

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.20, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Compassion, Forgiving, Trying

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• jealously lives with insecurity!

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  Insecurity, Jealously

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• hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

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  Hate, Healthy, Damage

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• we shed the skins of who we used to be!

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  Skins, Used, Used To Be

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

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• we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

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  Winning, Matter, No Matter What

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.228, Penguin

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• wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

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  Temptation, Way, Grace Christian

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2000). “Liar's Game”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• 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.

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  Real, Writing, Character

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• 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.

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  Book, Rights, People

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• don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

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  Heart, Break, Fragile

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• can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

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  Men, Blame, Being Human

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.91, Penguin

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• anger and jeaously are first cousins!

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  Cousin, Firsts

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

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  Want, Fantasy

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.38, Penguin

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• not all thoughts have to become words!

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• You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

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  Needs, Band, Stitches

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2000). “Cheaters”, p.222, Penguin

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• When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

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  Jobs, Mean, Journey

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• no expectations, no disappointments!

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  Disappointment, Expectations, Upset

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Chasing Destiny”, p.123, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Desire, Rage, Type

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.172, Penguin

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• 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.

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  People, Occupation, Rooms

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

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  Character, Issues, Challenges

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• you're just a side dish not the main course!

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  Side Dishes, Sides, Main Course

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

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  Apples, Oatmeal, Cookies

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2003). “Between Lovers”, p.103, Penguin

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• safety and love are both illusions!

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  Safety, And Love, Illusion

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.70, Penguin

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