Erich Segal Quotes

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

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Erich Segal

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and its hit film adaptation.

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Erich Segal

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

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Erich Segal

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

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This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
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[They] glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival.

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And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

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There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

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He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For medicine is an eternal quest for reasons - causes that explain effects. Science cannot comprehend a miracle.

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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

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I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

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I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had tolower my eyes, I was so ashamed that even now Jenny was reading my mind so perfectly.'Listen, that's the only goddamn thing I'm asking, Ollie. Otherwise, I know you'll be okay.' That thing in my gut was stirring again, so I was afraid to even speak the word 'okay.' I justlooked mutely at Jenny.

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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

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The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.

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It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

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