true or not true?

[janejellyroll]

It's a funny thing that people are always quite ready to admit it if they've no real talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.
--Nancy Mitford

I think this is obviously true, but I'm interested in what other people think.

Comments

[hunterxtc]

I dunno... I think that people are capable of true love, but they like to spread their true love around. Do you think it's possible to love more than one person at a time? And if so, then does that negate true love?

[phordicus]

love and true love are identical in the same way as perfect and more perfect. don't confuse finding true love with finding a/your true love. one is a state, the other an object. the former seems more likely, more realistic, and more mature. the latter is more for gauzy romantic visions.