Quotations About / On: ROMANTIC

  • 41.
    The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
    (Kate Millet (b. 1934), U.S. feminist, author. Sexual Politics, ch. 2, sct. 4 (1970).)
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  • 42.
    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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  • 43.
    The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.
    (James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Hero, episode 19, New Directions (1944). Stephen Daedalus is the speaker in this passage from Joyce's unfinished manuscript. Less than half the manuscript exists, and it was published only after Joyce's death.)
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  • 44.
    As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.
    (Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), British novelist, essayist, and memoirist; born in Ireland. Pictures and Conversations, ch. 1 (1975).)
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  • 45.
    The boy is a Greek; the youth, romantic; the adult, reflective.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Oration, August 31, 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The American Scholar," repr. In Emerson: Essays and Lectures, ed. Joel Porte (1983).)
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  • 46.
    Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Experience," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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  • 47.
    Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
    (Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. First published in Mother Jones (1986). "Tales of the Man Shortage," The Worst Years of Our Lives (1991).)
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  • 48.
    If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
    (Quentin Crisp (b. 1908), British author. The Naked Civil Servant, ch. 24 (1968).)
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  • 49.
    It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
    (Jane Jacobs (b. 1916), U.S. urban analyst. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, ch. 22 (1961). Jacobs lived in the lively, diverse Greenwich Village section of Manhattan (New York City).)
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  • 50.
    Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
    Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand....
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Three Movements.")
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