“The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”

Letter to Thomas Allsop (30 March 1820)
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

The Heretic (1968)

“Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous
readers.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps
too much ice cream…”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

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“It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”

Mary Antin book The Promised Land

Introduction
The Promised Land (1912)

“No man ever said at the end of his days, "I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful about my soul."”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Source: Home Truths (1859), Ch. II: "Repent, or Perish", p. 73

“I admire Lincoln very much.”

Eric Foner book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery https://books.google.com/books?id=earytjxi6pEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=lincoln+mcpherson&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD7tqJserLAhVLQSYKHRn6DmgQ6AEIPTAE#v=onepage&q=lincoln%20mcpherson&f=false (2010) p. xx <br class="br">2010s

“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)

“As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.”

Saul Leiter (1923–2013) American photographer

As quoted in Saul Leiter (2008) by Agnès Sire
Context: In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

“I like people too much or not at all.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

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