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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ”
Anglers who see fish exceptionally well can fish successfully in less productive water than anglers who don't. Fishermen love equipment and are always looking for mechanical advantages, but there is nothing to compare with learning to see well; if you see well enough, you can walk out in the mud with no boat and catch fish. ”
Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership. ”
I really do love 'Panama.' But I'd also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn't even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn't be published. I'd be writing it to put in my closet upstairs. ”
I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over. ”
It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff. ”
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ”
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. ”
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. ”
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. ”