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Best Quotes by Erich Segal (Top 10)
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
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I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
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And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
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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. And the Beatles. And me.
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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
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Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.
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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.
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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
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This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
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More Erich Segal Quotes
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We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)
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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
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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
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Her handwriting was curious  small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
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The âequilibrium' 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.
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Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.
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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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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?
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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 things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.
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