Merle Shain - Love Quotes

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain
Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

Merle Shain
Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

Merle Shain
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Merle Shain
I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

Merle Shain
Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

Merle Shain