Emilie Loring Professions : Novelist Born : 1864 Died : March 13, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Emilie Loring Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived. Emilie Loring selfishness real adventure Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life. Emilie Loring vitality giants color Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy. Emilie Loring chic discontent tragedy I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better. Emilie Loring writing trying giving It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly. Emilie Loring upkeep cost lying You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget. Emilie Loring heartache sorrow disappointment Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors