Erich Segal Quotes

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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal
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.

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The emergency room was a madhouse. The stormy holiday roads had yielded more than the statistical expectation of traffic accidents.

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"I am Professor Beckworth," he pronounced in a kind of soprano-baritone. "Would you like to ask me some statistics, sir?" "Yes," replied Bob. "What are the chances of this damn rain stopping today, Professor?" "Mmm," said Jean-Claude, pondering earnestly, "You'll have to see me tomorrow about that."

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"I mean, here you are a professor of statistics." "So?" "So you have one lousy affair in your whole life. For a few lousy days. And you get a kid as evidence. Christ, what are the odds of that happening to anybody?" "Oh," said Bob bitterly, "about a billion to one."

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"How are you, Mrs. Coleman?" "Not too bad. How's yer statistics?"

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He turned over on his side and picked up the American Journal of Statistics. Better than a sleeping pill. He idly leafed through a particularly unoriginal piece on stochastic processes, and thought, Christ, I've said this stuff a million times. And then he realized that he himself was the author.

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

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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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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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I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.

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

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

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