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Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide, with a dash of romance and more than a few wry twists. Bailey and Hemingway prove themselves very entertaining cultural mixologists.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

One is never too old for romance.

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

Paris had more sex than most church-laden places, and more church than most sex-laden places. Parisians crowed about Travail-Famille-Patrie while frequenting brothels. They enjoyed visiting drag shows while clamping down on homosexuality. They celebrated romance while treating women like dirt. Many of these contradictions existed elsewhere, but I do think Paris ruled the hypocrisy championships.

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," said Attolia dryly. "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love.

Presence is more than just being there.

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

Romance is all about making a story out of our love.

Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you’re dating Robert Pattinson, you’re screwed.

Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.