Love / Infidelity / Friendship / Distrust / Jealousy / Loneliness:

The following quotes illustrate the topic's ambiguity.  Use these to establish the scope of your topic--to begin to specify the subtopics that verbalize various differing opinions on the same issue--to begin to develop a guide to your reading.

"Love does not begin and end the way we think it does.  Love is a battle, love is war, love is growing."            James Baldwin

"The course of love never did run smooth." William Shakespeare

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."    Victor Hugo

"Trust men and they will be true to you:  treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."            Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive."     Havelock Ellis

"Loneliness seems to have become the Great American Disease."        John Corry

"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."    Logan P. Smith

"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."    Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope."    Leigh Hunt

"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even."    Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

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_ _ _   "Where I'm Calling From."  The Best American Short Stories 1983.
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_ _ _  "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"  Short Cuts.
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Ed. Hortense Calisher.  Boston, MA:  Houghton Mifflin Company,  1981. Pages 312-316.
_ _ _  "Gesturing."  The Best American Short Stories 1980.
Ed. Stanley Elkin.  Boston, MA:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
 Pages 409-420.
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