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• The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

  Douglas Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Awful

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• But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

  George Eliot

  May, Handsome, Bless

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.152

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• The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.

  Judith Crist

  Fall, Dumb, Blonde

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• Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

  Joseph Joubert

  Two, Vices, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That's the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That's what helps kids grow up feeling capable.

  Jack Canfield

  Children, Growing Up, Self Esteem

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• If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

  David Levithan

  Want, Good Place, Ifs

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.157, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

  James M. Barrie

  Pirate, Weapons, Killing

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.44, 谷月社

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• The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Joy

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Justice, Judging

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Pigs, Yellow, Baths

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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Twilight, Sunshine

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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• Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Character, Expansion, Way

  Jonathan Rosenbaum (2004). “Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons”, p.155, JHU Press

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• Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

  Neville Cardus

  Men, Flesh, Common

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.110, Souvenir Press

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• You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Letting Go, Real, Heart

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• London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Confusion, House, Design

  Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”

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• You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

  Mark Russell

  Character, Evil, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

  Karl Popper

  Falling In Love, Trying, Problem

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• He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

  Kerry Packer

  Leadership, Talking, Packers

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• Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character.

  Gerard Way

  Sweet, Jesus, Crazy

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• Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cute, Hurt, Party

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.164, Macmillan

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• I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Soul, Adults

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books

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• God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Needs, Delight

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• No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.

  Neville Chamberlain

  People, Doubt, Care

  Letter to a sister, Chamberlain Papers, July 30, 1939.

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• Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Hateful, Misanthrope

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.255

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• In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Letters, Matter

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