A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically
A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically
Overview
NEW EXPANDED EDITION! A Dictionary of Love with 22 more subject categories and over 50 more authors than the first edition.
A Dictionary of Love consists of over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arrange alphabetically in 213 subject categories by more than 350 authors, philosophers and celebrities including Kahlil Gibran, Bertrand Russell, Erich Fromm, Mother Teresa and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
The book is arranged for leisurely and easy reading. There is an index in the back listing authors, the category containing their quotes, and the source of these quotes, when known.
Praise for A Dictionary of Love
"A Dictionary of Love is a veritable Valentine of a book. It's a tidy collection of bon mots on the subject of love." The Sunday Herald, Monterrey, CA
"A really fun book to read. There is either a good laugh or a real thought provoker (or even both) on each page." New England Bride
"Consider these 'pearls of wisdom' from A Dictionary of Love" Family Circle
"Who wrote the book of love? The Answer, historians will argue. might be pretty difficult to trace. But one thing is certainly true, whoever wrote the book of love could probably have used Gil Friedman's A Dictionary of Love, on the desk beside the tablets, papyrus sheets, sheepskin, or whatever the muses used in the misty land of romantic wisdom." Chico Enterprise Record, Chico, CA
"With its variety of quotes—from the acerbic to the spiritual to the sentimental—this collection is never dull, and it also offers many thoughts worth meditating on." Small Press Review
"Beautiful Work." John Robbins, author of Diet for a Small America
"...Very beautiful book, we will refer to it often." Joyce and Barry Visell, authors of The Shared Heart
"What a joy to receive your wonderful book. I am honored you included mine." Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
"A great depository of quotes on love."
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"What sets Mr. Friedman's volume apart from earlier anthologies on the theme of love is that he included many New Age sages and they add a touch of seriousness and timeliness. There is Rollo May, Meher Baba, Gerald G. Jampolsky, Bernie S. Siegal, to mention just a few."
North Coast News
"Funny, rueful, practical, wise and compassionate, this collection is a recommended gift to anyone who is in or might be in a love relationship (like teenagers). One charming feature is the great range of attitudes displayed. One can disagree totally with one, and on the same page find one that rings true and provides an insight. Lots of fun, and more educational than many a tome." New Age Retailer
"This rich reference book is a must for all of us who want to express and understand love. Helpful, funny, bittersweet comments and insights. . . In all, about 300 lovers from various times and places unite to guide the reader on an odyssey invaluable to those who write lyrics, poetry, or an occasional love letter. It would make a suitable gift to mark either the end or the beginning of a love affair." Body, Mind Spirit
"Witty, profound and sometimes just plain fun this book is a delightful addition to the growing ranks of subject specific quotation books. It will be welcome by anyone—reader, writer, or librarian—who has ever searched in vain for just the right quote on the subject of love." American Reference Book Annual, Vol. 22, Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940033131754 |
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| Publisher: | Gil Friedman |
| Publication date: | 03/16/2012 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 200 KB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Friedman was born in a log cabin in the South, the South Bronx, He has always kept his New York accent. He attended P.S. 95, a public grammar school, and DeWitt Clinton High School, an all boys public high school. He started the University of Michigan at 17 but was unprepared socially. This has been his modus operandi throughout life. He then spent six months in active duty and five and half years in the reserve. After active service, he attended UCLA studying for a PhD in Clinical Psychology, but after two and a half years, he flunked out. He worked as a research psychologist in the defense industry for eighteen months, and then not knowing what to do, he applied to law school since there were no requirements other than having a B.A. On a lark, he applied to Harvard Law School, and much to his amazement, was accepted. At Harvard, he was one of the students there who made the top half of the class possible. After graduation, he settled in San Francisco where he obtained a job in a small firm in San Carlos, about 25 miles south of the city. While there he created, The Goldwater Calendar: Time for a Change??? about Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate in the 1964 presidential election. After six months at the San Carlos firm, he was fired, one of the happiest days of his life. He next worked as a lawyer in a mixed neighborhood in San Francisco which he enjoyed, but had the thought he wanted to be a university teacher. While teaching Business Law at the University of Connecticut, he wrote his unpublished book about auto insurance entitled Are You Being Taken For a Ride? A chapter of the book entitled 'Why Auto Insurance Rates Keep Going Up' was published in the September 1969 issue of The Atlantic.
After one year at Uconn, he came back to San Francisco to the hippie revolution. As a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, he reached the pinnacle of his writing career having five articles published in The New Republic in the space of seven months. After eighteen months at Legal Aid, he was asked to leave because he wasn't filing any big issue cases. He had a few thousand in the bank and wondered if he could go a few months without a job. The legal aid job was the last job Friedman ever had with the exception of teaching Family Law at Warwick University in Coventry, England for eighteen months, which was more of a vacation than a job, but the vacation abruptly ended when he received an advance to write a book on English di...