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"I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them."

"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."

"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."

"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
Explore more quotes by Richard Le Gallienne

"Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them."

"Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off."

"Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time."

"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."

"Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road."

"Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world."

"We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces."

"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence."

"All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal."

"The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct."
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