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I’ve been rereading your book. There’s love on every page.

— Elaine Dundy Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

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Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Elvis and Gladys (1985)

And eventually we will make sense of it.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I kept crying, knowing that I would never go back to seeing what I used to see.

Then after his death in London in taxis, on radio and TV I heard nothing but Elvis records and that grabbed my attention.

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

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

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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