"Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love"

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Source : Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.198, Bantam

Erich Segal

#May Quotes #Lost Quotes #Translations Quotes

“I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.”
“Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
“We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them...”
“My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.”
“The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.”
“I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.”
“My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.”
“The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.”

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