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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."

"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"

"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."

"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."

"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."

"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."
Explore more quotes by T. S. Eliot

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."

"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
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