John Updike - Love Quotes

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[Nelson, re. Annabelle]..."she wants what everybody wants. She wants love."

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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

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We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

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So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

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It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.

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