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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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... 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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They are preparing to begin again:
Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
In a predicated romance.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Task.")
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I want the concentration & the romance, & the words all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2, entry for August 15, 1924, ed. Anne O. Bell (1978).)
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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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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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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist, essayist, and diarist. The Common Reader, ch. 21 (1925).)
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Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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