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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
~ Donna Tartt
Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
~ Edmund Spenser
Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.
~ Elizabeth I
I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
~ Emmylou Harris
Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!
~ F. Paul Wilson
I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
~ Florence Welch
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.
~ Fritz Leiber
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
~ Garance Dore
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
~ George McGovern
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
~ Gertrude Stein
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
~ Herb Kelleher
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
~ Hermann Hesse
Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.
~ Hugo Black
I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
~ Ina Garten
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
~ James A. Baldwin
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
~ James Madison
I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.
~ Jason Mraz
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
~ Jay McInerney
We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
~ John C. McGinley
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
~ John Keats
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
~ John McGahern