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  Quotations About / On: ROMANCE

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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.
 
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Quoted in Dramatic Review (London, May 23, 1885).)
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  Romance is everything.
 
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Originally published by Payson & Clark (1928). "Advertisement," Useful Knowledge, Station Hill Press (1988).)
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  Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,

 
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Romance (l. 1-2). . . Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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  He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.

 
(Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. Miniver Cheevy (l. 15-16). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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  The realism of failure, the romance of success.
 
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  Nothing was explained, and yet there was no romance.
 
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. A Passage to India, pt. II, ch. 14 (1924).)
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  Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
 
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No Importance, act 1.)
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  ... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
 
(Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945), U.S. novelist. The Woman Within, ch. 9 (1954). Written in 1944. She was recalling her early infatuation with the idea of having a literary career.)
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