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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
1856-1900, British Author, Wit
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the
mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for
him in the days when he was young and well?
William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a
romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery,
no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity,
in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native
land.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Romances I never read like those I have seen.
Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress
is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished
because it feels nice.
Paul West
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the
friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely
told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance,
the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it
falls so short of in fact and in deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced,
will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
American Actress
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one
always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but
the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely
more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of
marriage make her something like a public building.
Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit
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