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Nina was always loved. Maybe that’s a bad thing. It gives people that terrible confidence that the world is going to give them the chance to fulfill themselves.

— John D. MacDonald Nightmare in Pink (1964)

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The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)

Any man who outgrows the myths of childhood is ninety-nine percent aware and convinced of his own mortality.

Dress Her in Indigo (1969)

In many ways life is less random than we think.

One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)

Statistically it is probably the one city in the world where the most people have been killed in arguments over professional athletes.

One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)

Education is something that should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.

A Purple Place for Dying (1964)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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