love bites

11 Things: Love Bites

Thursday, February 14, 2008

1. Real world:

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end."
- Anonymous

2. Ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn't've?):

"Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other."
- William Somerset Maugham

3. Operator's manual:

"All You Need Is Cash"
- The Rutles

4. Nostalgia:

"I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.' "
- Frank Zappa

5. Just lust:

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia."
- H.L. Mencken

6. Sixteen again:

"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away."
- Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye."

7. Walking distance:

"My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there."
- Carrie Fisher

8. Love is lies:

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
- Matt Groening

9. Nothing left:

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."
- Woody Allen, "Love and Death"

10. E.S.P.:

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
- Goethe

11. Late for the train:

"Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain


- Tim Sullivan, tsullivan@sfchronicle.com

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This article appeared on page G - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle