Erich Segal quotes

Erich Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and academic, best known for his novel "Love Story." His work achieved worldwide popularity and was adapted into a successful film. He also made significant contributions to literary scholarship and classical studies. Here are 27 of his quotes:

Love means never having to say you're sorry. (Erich Segal)

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

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It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love.

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What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness.

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I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

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Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory.

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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

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And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

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This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural. (Erich Segal)

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

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The ‘equilibrium' that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It's only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

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Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

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Sometimes I amaze even myself.

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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

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There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

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Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

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Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.

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They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.

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He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.
"Which one is that?" I asked her.
"Do not bullshit thy father," she said. (Erich Segal)

What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.

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What the hell makes you smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you." "Listen - I wouldn't ask you." "That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.

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Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

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You don't know about falling off cliffs, Preppie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your goddamn life.' 'Yeah,' I said, recovering the power of speech. 'When I met you.

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Erich Segal

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: June 16, 1937
Died: January 17, 2010
Quotes count: 27
Wikipedia: Erich Segal

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