Erich Segal Quotes

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• This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
• Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
• True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
• Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either…
• There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
• Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing…
• What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The…
• Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
• Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
• The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think…
• What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?"…
• I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.
• But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened…
• And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
• He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she…
• I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
• The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
• Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.
• The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the…
• although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

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