Conflicted Romantic Infidelity

Famous quotes containing the words romantic and/or infidelity:

    “The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art ... is merely romantic fiction.... The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.”
    —Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    “She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity—and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the “woman of wax” whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)