John Dufresne Quotes

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• Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
• A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?
• The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong.…
• Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
• We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense…
• A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.
• Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for…
• You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these obstacles…
• You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal…
• You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know…
• I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet,…
• Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.
• Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.
• Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except…

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