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" The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug. "

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" We only part to meet again. "

" I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic. "

" The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. "

" There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. "

" The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. "

" The underdog winning is the romantic position. "

" Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs. "

" You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. "

" I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. "

" Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. "

" I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that. "

" I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. "

" There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. "

William Cartwright

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Romantic

" My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. "

Sherman Alexie

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Wife

" I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

" It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful. "

" I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. "

" But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster. "

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" Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world. "

" At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that. "

" I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it. "

" I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing. "

" There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. "

" Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. "

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Men

" If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work. "

" Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country. "

" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "

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" Almost every story has a romantic angle to it. "

" What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. "