Erich Segal quotes

Love means never having to say you're sorry. (Erich Segal)
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. View quote
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It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special. View quote
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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love. View quote
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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 Beatles. And me. View quote
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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness. View quote
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I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons. View quote
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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 to be able to turn any defeat into victory. View quote
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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done. View quote
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And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried. View quote
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This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural. (Erich Segal)
although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love. View quote
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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 knack of hiding. View quote
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Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal? View quote
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Sometimes I amaze even myself. View quote
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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? View quote
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There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. View quote
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Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us. View quote
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Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said. View quote
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They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked. View quote
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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 said. (Erich Segal)
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?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone. View quote
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What the hell makes you smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you." "Listen - I wouldn't ask you." "That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid. View quote
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Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest. View quote
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You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.' 'Yeah,' I said, re­cov­er­ing the power of speech. 'When I met you. View quote
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