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Love Quotes
Quotes on love in its many forms.
Love here isn't only romantic - one quote compares loving a city to loving Paris, another describes the joy of fatherhood, and a third recalls turning sheer terror into genuine enjoyment. For romance-specific reading, try Love Messages.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- City
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
- Like
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I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.
- Meat
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I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
- People
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I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.
- Criticise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020