Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Topic

Need for love Lack of love Love

Author

Margaret Atwood

Source

The Handmaid's Tale

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Canada

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Citation

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 18.

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Hugging the Shore

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Topic
Critics

Author

John Updike
Source
Hugging the Shore
Language
English
Time
1983 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, foreword.

Another quote about Love

Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr

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Topic
Nature of love Love
Speaker
Damilcar

Author

John Dryden
Source
Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Language
English
Time
1669 1660s 17th century
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Original Citation

Dryden, John. Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. Performed by Nell Gwyn and Margaret Hughes and Michael Mohun and Charles Hart and Rebecca Marshall and William Cartwright. King's Company, 1669, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Tyrannick Love." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Maximillian E. Nozak and George R. Guffey. Vol. 10, University of California, 1970.