#love

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. ↗

— Rita Dove

#find #i #love #read #reading

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#even #friend #love #married #partner

I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#i love #love #maclaine #shirley #woman

He would make a lovely corpse. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#lovely #make #would

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! ↗

— Brian Lumley

#could #critic #literary #loves #only

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#feelings #love #marriage #passion #death

I love hearing people laugh. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#i #i love #laugh #love #people

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run. ↗

— Bill Dickey

#great #hit #home #home run #i

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#alone #bee #bees #clover #few

I've always loved writing. ↗