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"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

Marya Mannes on Romantic

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• "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

  William Shakespeare on Romantic

• "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Romantic

• "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

  Billy Graham on Romantic

• "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."

  Charlie Chaplin on Romantic

• "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."

  Fran Lebowitz on Romantic

More quotes by Marya Mannes

• "For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

• "In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."

• "It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."

• "The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

• "The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."