People say the ‘Lost Generation’ in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer’s life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
I’m no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I’ve been doing some exploration of the inner space.
There’s something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple’s first meeting.
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there’s a certain cringe factor that’s involved with that.
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don’t last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.