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Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best known for writing the novel Love Story , a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit.

✵ 16. June 1937 – 17. January 2010
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Works

Love Story
Love Story
Erich Segal
The Class
The Class
Erich Segal
Doctors
Doctors
Erich Segal
Love Story
Love Story
Erich Segal
The Class
The Class
Erich Segal
Doctors
Doctors
Erich Segal
Erich Segal: 22 quotes3 likes

Famous Erich Segal Quotes

“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story (also used in the film)

“What the hell makes you smart?" I asked.
"I wouldn't go for coffee with you."
"Listen - I wouldn't ask you."
"That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Variant: What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.
Source: Love Story

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

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

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

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory”

Erich Segal

“Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?”

Erich Segal book The Class

Source: The Class

Erich Segal Quotes about love

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.”

Erich Segal

Variant: What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

“although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.”

Erich Segal book Doctors

Source: Doctors

Erich Segal Quotes

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

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

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

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.
"Which one is that?" I asked her.
"Do not bullshit thy father," she said.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.'

'Yeah,' I said, re­cov­er­ing the power of speech. 'When I met you.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.”

Erich Segal book Doctors

Source: Doctors

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

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?'

She looked me straight in the eye and smiled.

'I like your body,' she said.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.”

Erich Segal book The Class

The Class (opening words)

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

Erich Segal

Oliver's Story film's tagline

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