“Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied”
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
Context: Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied, it anaesthesises them from the pain of their disordered second-rate lives [... ] If romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied then surely nostalgia is the opiate of the disillusioned, for those who see all their dreams come true and find themselves living in a nightmare.
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“Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.”
Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 271
“I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect.”
Interview with Rebecca Murray http://romanticmovies.about.com/cs/lostintranslation/a/lostbillint.htm
Context: I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. I think I have some romantic friendships. Like the song “Love the One You’re With”; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with. And love can be seeing that here we are and there’s this world here. If I go to my room and I watch TV, I didn’t really live. If I stay in my hotel room and watch TV, I didn’t live today.
The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.
Name for hypothetical planet nearer the Sun than Mercury
The Story of the Heavens, London, 1893, p. 122
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Useful Knowledge (1928)
“Romance is the poetry of literature.”
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 676.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
