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Letter "R" » Romance
«Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.»
Author: Amanda Cross
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Romance
| Keywords:
dust, everyday life, glamour, haze, romance
«Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles»
«Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
| About:
Friendship,
Love,
Romance,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
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«I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.»
Author: Pietro Aretino
| About:
Lies,
Love,
Relationships,
Romance,
Truth
| Keywords:
adore, adores, adoring, all told, For, hate, have, Have You, I Love You, lay out, lies, sooner, telling, Telling You, tell on, Than, The Telling, The Truth, truth, truth telling, would
«It didn't dawn on me until you were gone just how much I would mis you. Sometimes I start to pick up the phone to see if you want to do something, and then I remember you're far away. Or I go somewhere we used to go, see people having fun, and wish we could be there, too, laughing and talking like they are. Don't get me wrong...I hope you're having a good time exploring new places and making new friends. I just miss you...I guess that's only natural when someone means as much to me as you.»
«Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings»
«I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!»
«Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Romance
| Keywords:
allegiance, at will, fiction writer, owes, probability, ranges, region, region of, tether, tethered, tethers, The God, the novel
«O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Romance
| Keywords:
gentleness, minstrel, minstrels, The Minstrel
«Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Romance
| Keywords:
bust, busted, busting, busts, full-length, Marriages, matrimonial, romances
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