“Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.”
Variant: Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry
Source: The Bronze Horseman
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“Do you always get so hungry when you make love?”
“When you love somebody.”
Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
Context: But I get so hungry,' she said. 'Is it normal do you think? Do you always get so hungry when you make love?'
'When you love somebody.
Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars : A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear, p. 65; this is a translation of "Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."
Variant translations:
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.
Misattributed
'When you love somebody.'
Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
The Garden of Eden (1986)
“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
David Lloyd George
Misattributed
"The pool", p. 127
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
Nobel lecture (2005)
