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Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Judith Viorst

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Judith Viorst
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: February 2
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Journalist
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
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Love
Lust
Wanting
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Relationship
Desire

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We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.
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Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
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[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.
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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
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Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.
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If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.
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No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.
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Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
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Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
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I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
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It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
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Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.
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Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
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Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our second other-elaborates on them.
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