Quote by Anita Brookner
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. – Anita Brookner

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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner

Category:
Women
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. – Anita Brookner

Category:
Play/Games
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Other Quotes from
Romance
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Whats the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, todays music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. – David A. Vigilanti

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Romance

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 fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman

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Romance

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. – Isaac Disraeli

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Romance

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. – Oscar Wilde

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Romance

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I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends parents were punks or hippies. – Shirley Manson

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer

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Miscellaneous

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness. – Shania Twain

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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. – Walter Pater

Category:
Beauty