„The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness – easy substitutes – and there is no substitute for creation.“

— Ayn Rand

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„This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.“
— Aleister Crowley
„If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.“
— Sylvia Plath
„To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.“
— Sylvia Plath
„After Olympia Press, in Paris, published the book, an American critic suggested that Lolita was the record of my love affair with the romantic novel. The substitution "English language" for "romantic novel" would make this elegant formula more correct.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„…the war between the Nazis and the Communists; the war of the non-God religions, waged with the weapons of the twentieth century. The most striking fact about the new religions was their similarity. They substituted the devil for God and hatred for love.“
— Winston S. Churchill