"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be."

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"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be."

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"With shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Love, Family, Hope, Childhood

"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Love, Salvation, Human, Effort, Desire

"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."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Love, Heart, Indifference, Needs

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Attraction, Heart, Magnetic

"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Light, Guidance, World

"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."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Love, Civilization, Fact, Public

"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

Love, Children, Man

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Love, Habit, Commitment, Truth

"When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Love, Discovery, Waiting, Truth

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."

Rose Tremain, English Novelist

Love, Work

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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

Beginning

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

Genius

"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."

Opportunity

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

Desire

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."

Truth

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

Joy

"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."

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"With shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before."

"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

"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."

"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

"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."

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

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

"When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."

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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."

"I love devils."

"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."

"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."