Quotes with romantic

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  • Ben Brantley I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp 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
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Anne Boyd In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.
    Anne Boyd
    Australian composer
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  • Margaret Anderson In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
    Margaret Anderson
    American editor and publisher (1886 - 1973)
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  • Dan Cruickshank In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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  • Thomas Wolfe Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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  • Billy Dee Williams It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Brooke Burke Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Candice Glover Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Eli Cass Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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  • Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Emma Goldman Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Lord George Byron Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Kate Millet 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
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Anita Brookner The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Buchi Emecheta The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bartlett Sher The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Doug Horton The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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