"O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!"
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"Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages."
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"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."
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"The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty."
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"Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes."
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"Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go."
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"I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to."
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"Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance."
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"No age seemed the age of romance to itself."
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"Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. Its not necessarily about falling in love."
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"It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love."
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"Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop."
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"Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen."
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"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."
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"I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge."
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"By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision"
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"It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts."
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"As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing."
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"From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?"
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"Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building."
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