"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."

Love, Literature, Nostalgia

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"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."

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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile-no black, white, yellow, or red. We could be one great brotherhood in Jesus Christ. However, until we come to recognize Him as the Prince of Peace and receive His love in our hearts, the racial tensions will increase, racial demands will become more militant, and a great deal of blood will be shed. The race problem could become another flame out of control!"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The proof of true love for God is in service to others."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony of parting, they would almost certainly be happier ten years hence than marriage is at all likely to make them - even then, they would not part."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"It is Satan's purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts . . . The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."

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"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."

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"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."

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"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."

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"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."

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