Skip to content
quotesby

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

E.L. Doctorow#4

More from E.L. Doctorow

  1. There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

    Permalink to quote #3
  2. Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed a…

    Permalink to quote #5
  3. Planning to write is not writing. Outlining ...researching ...talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

    Permalink to quote #2