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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."

"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
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