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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."

"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."

"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

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

"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 typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."

"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."

"I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else."

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."
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