I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

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It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART

What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me...
ELLEN WILLIS People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart ...
ANNA BAYES

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion and understated erotica that popul...
LARA ST. JOHN

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popu...
LARA ST. JOHN

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.
SUSIE BRIGHT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD As a techdomme I love to take control of your digital life, your PC and of course that will have REA...
MISTRESS HARLEY Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
FABRIZIO DE ANDRé The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about ...
ROBERT MORGAN We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities.
BEN OAK Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like.
SPIDER ROBINSON An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an over...
FIERCE DOLAN The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s...
SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like anothe...
ANAïS NIN

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. An...
JAMES ANDERSON

She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to...
EDWARD HIRSCH

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
ANAïS NIN An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right
E. LOCKHART Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right
E. LOCKHART Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
J. G. BALLARD Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human ...
KURT VONNEGUT Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
ISABEL ALLENDE Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
ISABEL ALLENDE The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I c...
JOANNA RUSS I think we were all relieved that we had something we could focus on.
ADAM CARTER We actually wrote the record in and out of Canada, where we live, in sort of cottage country. ... We...
ADAM GONTIER It changed poetry for ever in the UK. It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more...
ADRIAN MITCHELL I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
Bu...
KAMAND KOJOURI My hearing loss was essentially due to noise exposure during my military service. I was on an anti-s...
NORM CROSBY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART I quickly scoop up the rest of my personal life on display on the sidewalk and I'm relieved that I h...
VI KEELAND All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well,...
JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN Writing it was kind of hard, ... I wrote a lot of it on the road, and I don't really enjoy writing o...
DIERKS BENTLEY People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS . . .because we had survived
sisters and brothers, daughters and sons,
we discovered bones...
LISEL MUELLER Whatever we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feelour state of mindpowerfully influences o...
ANTHONY ROBBINS Richie came to see one of my shows. Afterwards he made a point of meeting me and saying: "I'm the gu...
JON BON JOVI The show was very emotional. We all have so much experience that we were trying to trick ourselves i...
CHRIS CORNELL Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak ef...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way!
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Your ability to sustain focus depends on how enjoyable and productive it is.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will o...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus can become an obsession... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in ...
PATRICK CALIFIA-RICE We came in and had a set goal in mind. We knew what we had to do was control the tempo. I knew I had...
DENA SANTORO There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD [The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rej...
ADRIAN MITCHELL ...she knew right away she was entering a new world. One she had never witnessed or played a part in...
TALON P.S. Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference....
KENN KAUFMAN If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss...
PATRICK NESS I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
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ANAïS NIN A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o...
ANAïS NIN I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo...
ANAïS NIN You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever...
ANAïS NIN In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
ANAïS NIN We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
ANAïS NIN Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...
ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
ANAïS NIN I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
ANAïS NIN Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAïS NIN [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
ANAïS NIN Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAïS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAïS NIN I write emotional algebra.
ANAïS NIN She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ...
ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAIS NIN The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
ANAIS NIN How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
ANAIS NIN Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NIN There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
ANAIS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NIN Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
ANAIS NIN

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

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Anaïs Nin

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

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