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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 (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Quoted in Dramatic Review (London, May 23, 1885).)
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I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys.... Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
(Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), British novelist. Mrs. Greenow, in Can You Forgive Her?, Vol. 2, ch. lxiv, London, Chapman and Hall (1864-1865).)
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The romance and mystery is [sic] gone. Computer-processed images have no delicacy, no craftsmanship, no substance, and no soul. No love.
(Kim Nibblett (b. c. 1969), U.S. photographer. As quoted in Silicon Snake Oil, ch. 6, by Clifford Stoll (1995).
One of the rare young photographers who continues to develop her pictures chemically in a darkroom rather than shooting and processing them through computerized means.)
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If a criterion were wanted for telling a novel from a fable or a tale or a romance (or a drama), a simple rule-of-thumb would be the absence of the supernatural. In fables and fairy tales, as everyone knows, birds and beasts talk. In novels, they don't; if you find birds and beasts talking in a book you are reading you can be sure it is not a novel. That takes care, for example, of Animal Farm. Men in novels may behave like beasts, but beasts in novels may not behave like men. That takes care of Gulliver's Travels, in case anyone were to mistake it for a novel. The characters in a novel must obey the laws of nature.
(Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), U.S. author, critic. "The Fact in Fiction," The Humanist in the Bathtub, Farrar, Straus (1964).)
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Nothing was explained, and yet there was no romance.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. A Passage to India, pt. II, ch. 14 (1924).)
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her look like a public building.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. From A Woman of No Importance (1893). Quoted in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, ed. Alvin Redman (1952).)
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist, essayist, and diarist. The Common Reader, ch. 21 (1925).)
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