Romance Quotes - Page 30

• To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Ink, Paper

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.305

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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

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• Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Writing, Ivy, Needs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “The Marble Faun”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Even if the sun refused to shine
  Even if romance ran out of rhyme
  You would still have my heart until the end of time
  You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

  Martina McBride

  Music, Valentine, Heart

  Song: Valentine, Album: Evolution

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• Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Beautiful, Men, Dating

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• I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

  Lena Dunham

  Friendship, Girl, Thinking

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.

  Thomas Gray

  Lying, Flutes, Eternity

  Thomas Gray (1911). “Essays and Criticisms”

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• Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

  David Lynch

  Running, Wall, Struggle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Faith, Inspiration, Signatures

  Charles J. Chaput (2017). “Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World”, p.225, Henry Holt and Company

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• I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Romantic, Thinking Of You

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• All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

  David Cronenberg

  Writing, Keys, People

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• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Suffering

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

  Horace

  Running, Nature, Literature

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 10, l. 24

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• I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending a lot of money on it. They’re going for a very gritty and realistic portrayal of the Highlands and I play Dougal MacKenzie, the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. As that implies, he’s quite the serious character. There’s lots of political intrigue, there’s romance, there’s adventure and action and there’s time-travel.

  Graham McTavish

  War, Adventure, Character

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• Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

  Tessa Dare

  Character, Heart, Voice

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• Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Men, Eternal Friendship, Wonderful

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• The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.

  Qurratulain Hyder

  Song, Lonely, Sunset

  Qurratulain Hyder (2010). “Fireflies in the Mist”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then automatically finds him attractive. I’m sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, I’d be reaching for a weapon—not admiring the view.

  Kristin Nelson

  Sorry, Men, Views

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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

  Jennifer Garner

  Princess, Hard Work, Knights

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• The mystique and the romance of a big wedding are lost on me. I don't think that I could ever do something that extravagant. I am not much of a planner. I would probably make the phone call 20 minutes before the bus leaves for the chapel and ask if anyone is available to come. That's probably how my wedding is going to end up.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, Phones, Phone Calls

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• When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

  Peter Weller

  Hate, Comedy, Thrillers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Parent, Splits, Fairytale

  "Aniston blames split on unhappy childhood; Joaquin Phoenix enters rehab; Nielsen's cat fight with Joan Rivers". www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2005.

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• But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Heart, Past, Way

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• I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.

  Emily Blunt

  Love Is, Thinking, Ideas

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