"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."
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"Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture."
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"He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other."
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"thus with a kiss I die"
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"I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am."
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"All mankind love a lover."
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"I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is."
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"Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."
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"Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P"
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"The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic."
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"When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel."
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"Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow."
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"The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire."
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"I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public."
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"Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure."
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"To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings."
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"There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed."
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"God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance."
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"Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here, somewhere - real close-up. I really couldn't have done it if I hadn't been through a lot one way or another. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so it's not a pleasant feeling!"
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