“The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference”
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.”
Variant: I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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