"If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being."
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"Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought."
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"There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance."
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"I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance."
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"Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!"
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"I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence."
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"I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible."
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"Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment."
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"There is only one romance the Soul's."
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"How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?"
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"The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us."
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"I know what it's like to pine away for that summer romance you just can't get back."
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"Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo."
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"Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power."
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"Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon."
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"Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in."
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"And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover."
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"I don't want a ricochet romance, I don't want a ricochet love. If you're careless with your kisses, find another turtledove. I can't live on ricochet romance, no, no, not me! If you're gonna ricochet, baby, I'm gonna set you free."
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"You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president."
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"The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one."
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