George Plimpton Quotes
As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.
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I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.
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You're not sick you're just in love.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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If I don't love my character, I can't do it.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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There are no rules when it comes to love.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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The one thing women love more than money is power.
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I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
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No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.
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You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.
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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
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As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.
