"When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours."
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"Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context."
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"Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance."
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"Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story."
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"Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality."
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"The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again."
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"A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance."
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"The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age."
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"...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again."
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"The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm."
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"I want the wonder back again, or I shall die."
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"It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance."
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"People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance."
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"I've been running a lot, taking care of myself."
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"Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance."
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"Therapy was the biggest romance of my life."
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"Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley."
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"I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually."
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"Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous."
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"I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with."
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