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The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.
It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.
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.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?
Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.
I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D.
It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.
To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.
I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.
We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.
Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.
On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
The hero of a mainstream stand-alone novel can get by with things the hero of a sweet traditional category romance wouldn't dream of doing.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.