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I'm a romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Amory Blaine, in This Side of Paradise, bk. 2, ch. 1 (1920).)
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The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."
(Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. first published in Esquire (New York, Aug. 1936). The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938).
In its original publication, "Julian" was named as F. Scott Fitzgerald, who, in his 1926 story "The Rich Boy," had written "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." (See Fitzgerald.).)
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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
(John Dos Passos (1896-1970), U.S. novelist, poet, playwright, painter. Jimmy Herf in Manhattan Transfer, Houghton Mifflin Company (1925 and 1953).)
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
(Italo Calvino (1923-1985), Italian author, critic. lecture, Nov. 1969, Turin. "Cybernetics and Ghosts," The Literature Machine (1987).)
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The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."
(Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. first published in Esquire (New York, Aug. 1936). "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938).
In its original publication, "Julian" was named as F. Scott Fitzgerald, who, in his 1926 story "The Rich Boy," had written "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." (See Fitzgerald's comments.).)
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My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Hero, episode 26, New Directions (1944).
Stephen Daedalus is the speaker in this passage from Joyce's unfinished manuscript, Stephen Hero. Less than half the manuscript exists, and it was published only after Joyce's death.)
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