--- title: "1 Dorian Quotes By Erica Jong" description: "1 Dorian quotes by Erica Jong. Plus more from Erica Jong and more Dorian sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/erica-jong-445_best-friend_dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-p_960645.jpg" --- > [“Dorian Fairchester Faddington IV was a promiscuous poetaster of whom even his best friends declared that he "went from bed to verse." Though he was sexually omnivorous and on occasion preferred camels, like nine out of ten doctors, ordinarily his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-promiscuous-poetaster-of-whom/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/erica-jong-445_best-friend_dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-p_960645.jpg) ## Other authors on Dorian ## More by Erica Jong > [“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/it-took-me-years-to-learn-to-sit-at-my-desk-for-more-than-two-minutes/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/will-you-ever-i-dont-think-you-will-ever-fully-understand-how-you-ve/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/give-advice-to-your-children-while-they-re-young-enough-to-believe/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/perhaps-all-artists-were-in-a-sense-housewives-tenders-of-the-earth/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-have-lived-my-life-according-to-this-principle-if-i-m-afraid-of-it/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-thought-to-spend-my-declining-years-writing-poetry-and-teaching-but/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/naomi-wolf-dares-to-explode-the-myth-of-victim-feminism-and-pleads/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [I knew I was in England by the smell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-knew-i-was-in-england-by-the-smell/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-lives-of-great-men-are-more-oft-at-variance-with-their-profess-d/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/women-s-books-are-kind-of-discriminated-against-if-a-man-writes-a/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/many-many-people-have-done-a-lot-more-sexual-experimentation-than-i/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [“Is life much too long for an immortal?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/is-life-much-too-long-for-an-immortal/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/don-t-ye-know-that-ev-ry-soul-on-earth-feels-itself-to-be-an-orphan/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/critics-write-out-of-intellectual-exercise-not-poets-poets-write/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/once-i-worshipped-keats-for-dying-young-now-i-think-it-s-braver-to/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dorian/erica-jong/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dorian Quotes By Erica Jong", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Dorian Fairchester Faddington IV was a promiscuous poetaster of whom even his best friends declared that he \"went from bed to verse.\" Though he was sexually omnivorous and on occasion preferred camels, like nine out of ten doctors, ordinarily his taste ran to women. Hermione Fingerforth was a woman-or so she liked to assume-and whenever she ran into Dorian it was not long before their lips met in a succession of interesting poses. \"The skin is the largest organ of the body,\" she once nonchalantly remarked to him as they were sunbathing in the nude together on the terrace of her penthouse in Flatbush. \"Speak for yourself,\" he declared, leaping on top of her in a sudden paroxysm of passion. \"Out, out of my damned twat!\" she yelled, pushing him away and shielding her much-vaunted virginity with a silver-foil sun reflector. \"I take it you want me to reflect on what I'm doing,\" he quipped. \"Jesus Christ,\" she said crossly, \"men are only interested in women in spurts.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erica Jong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-promiscuous-poetaster-of-whom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/erica-jong-445_best-friend_dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-p_960645.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/erica-jong-445_best-friend_dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-p_960645.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/erica-jong-445_best-friend_dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-p_960645.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dorian Fairchester Faddington IV was a promiscuous poetaster of whom even his best friends declared that he…” — Erica Jong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dorian/erica-jong/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dorian/erica-jong/", "name": "Dorian Quotes by Erica Jong", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dorian/erica-jong/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/erica-jong-445_best-friend_dorian-fairchester-faddington-iv-was-a-p_960645.jpg" }, "description": "1 Dorian quotes by Erica Jong. 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