Quotes by Erich Segal

Erich Segal

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

Brain

Location

Rage

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Done

Tears

Tragedy

But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. “You mean like incest?” she asked. “Don’t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.” “Like what, Oliver?” she asked, “like just what is it he makes you do?” “The ‘right things’”, I said. “What’s wrong with the ‘right things’?” she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.

Eye

Giving

Mean

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.

Bullshit

Daughter

Father

Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

Handwriting

Letters

Thinking

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

Said

Thinking

War

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

Accepted

Love

Reason

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person… It’s the air at Harvard; it’s like a Renaissance court.

Air

Different

Renaissance

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

Forget

Helping

Special

Jenny, if you’re so convinced I’m a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?’ She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. ‘I like your body,’ she said.

Body

Bulls

Eye

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Able

Accepted

Air

Alive

Answers

Beautiful

Body

Brain

Brilliant

Bulls

Bullshit

Cry

Daughter

Decision

Different

Doctors

Done

Eight

Eye

Faces

Fall

Father

Forget

Genius

Girl

Giving

Handwriting

Helping

Heroism

Idealism

Ifs

Illusion

Inspiring

Jenny

Knack

Knowing

Letters

Location

Loser

Lost

Love

Madness

May

Mean

Mural

Pain

People

Please

Priests

Professors

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Quotes by Erich Segal

Erich Segal

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

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.

Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

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

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person… It’s the air at Harvard; it’s like a Renaissance court.

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

Jenny, if you’re so convinced I’m a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?’ She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. ‘I like your body,’ she said.

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