"The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

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“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

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"For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would hav…"

— David Lee Roth

Music1954

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"Once a lumberjack was about to chop down a tree, when he noticed a heart carved on it, with two names inside. Putting away his axe, he sawed down the tree instead. The point of that story escapes me, …"

— Woody Allen

Entertainment1935

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"The politician may change sides so frequently as to find himself always in the majority, but most politicians have a preference for one party to the other, and subordinate their love of power to this …"

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy1872–1970

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"I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of…"

— Maggie Stiefvater

literature1981

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