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"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."
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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
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"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."
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"You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do."
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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."
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"I left her in the forest of Arden, I shall find her in an orchard in Verona."
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"Romance is everything."
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"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"
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"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."
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"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."
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"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
Romantic
"One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name."
History
"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist."
Suffering
"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."
Romantic
"But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do."
Fiction
"But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy."
Literature
"The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in."
Life
"But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time."
Time
"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."
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"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."
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