“It was almost as if there were no peace unless one could fight well, kill well (if always with honor), love well and love many. … It was as if the message in the labyrinth of the genes would insist that violence was locked with creativity, and adventure was the secret of love.”
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
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American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007Related quotes
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 18
Context: The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)
“For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”
Ch 22
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Lux
Context: But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
“She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.”
Variant: If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Source: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006), Ch. 21, pp. 317-318
Source: What Is the What
Context: I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
