A Quote by Grace Paley

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
American - Writer
December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

Audre Lorde

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde

The kiss that you have never given is just as powerful as hours of actual lovemaking. The erotic isn't just what is happening between people's legs. It is also what's happening in their erotic mind.

Esther Perel

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Philip Roth

I may not know everything, but one thing that I do know is that as long as we are in the 'land of the living,' we are going to get older!

Cynthia Bailey

In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

Alberto Manguel

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

Diane Ackerman

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

We know desire is rooted in absence and yearning. What you don't have is often ten times richer than what you actually experience. An affair is a perfect erotic plot because it fits the erotic equation of psychotherapist Jack Morin: "Attraction plus obstacle equals excitement.".

Esther Perel

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Benjamin Haydon

I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.

Madonna Ciccone

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

Henry Allingham

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

Patrick Swift

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Egon Schiele

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

Seneca the Younger

We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much scarier. It means that what we do every day matters, which is always a bummer for humans. But it’s a great thing and it’s inspirational and we need to remember that. We have a long way to go and not a long time to get there.

Ezra Miller

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