Erich Segal citations (23 citations)

Variante: 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

“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.”

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Erich Segal livre Love Story

Source: Love Story

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

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“Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love”

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Erich Segal livre The Class

Source: The Class

“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.”

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Erich Segal livre 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.”

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Erich Segal livre Doctors

Source: Doctors

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

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Erich Segal livre Love Story

Source: Love Story

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

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Erich Segal livre Love Story

Source: Love Story

“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.”

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Variante: 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.

“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.”

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Erich Segal livre 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”

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“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.”

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Erich Segal livre Love Story

Source: Love Story

“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?”