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“Relaxing, embracing, surrendering, trusting - these are the only tools of a lover of truth. So, turn from warrior into a lover.”

Turns Lovers Tools Warrior

Book:Freedom Is: Liberating Your Boundless Potential

Source: Freedom Is: Liberating Your Boundless Potential

“When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write spontaneously out of your limited experience of both the unwritten world and the written world. You're full of naïve exuberance. 'I am a writer!' Rather like the excitement of 'I have a lover!' But working at it nearly every day for fifty years whether it is being the writer or being the lover turns out to be an extremely taxing job and hardly the pleasantest of human activities.”

World Writing Years Humans Ideas Jobs Turns Written Lovers Activity Excitement Fifty Human Activity Unwritten Exuberance

Author:Philip Roth

“Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.”

Real Soul Ends Matter Inspiration Spirit Turns Secret Brain Blood Journey Adventure Cold Lovers Sick Weight Meetings Clouds Nostalgia Gray Adventurer Dismay Lovers Meeting

Book:Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a cliché, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were making something good or interesting or sensational, you could have as many lovers as you wanted and ruin them all.”

Mind Long Wanted Artist Turns Given Decision Interesting Results Seeing Lovers Ruins Paris Excess Sensational Bad Decision

Book:The Paris Wife: A Novel

Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel

“But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.”

Mind Shows Turns Beauty Bears Lovers Green Glasses Rage Jealousy

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works