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- I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
- Johnny Rotten
- Love, n - A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Love is so much better when you are not married.
- Maria Callas
- I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- ...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
- Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
- James Burke
- Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.
- Chekov of Tolstoy
- The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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