Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Variant: If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway
Source: Tiger Lily
“If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 5, The Audience, p. 26.
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“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”
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Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul