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• In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?

  Rachael Yamagata

  Love Relationship, Connections, Honest

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• Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

  John Friend

  Couple, Communication, Ideas

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• The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.

  Val Kilmer

  Believe, I Believe, Audience

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

  Tim Kaine

  Decision, Matter, Moral

  "Hillary Clinton Picks Her VP Nominee: Who Is Tim Kaine?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 23, 2016.

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• Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retain what I think of as reactionary views about sexuality and intimacy.

  Christine Sneed

  Thinking, Views, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

  Ann Patchett

  Two, People, Different

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.

  Peter Stone

  Directors, Way, Actresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.

  Robert Davi

  Art, Listening, Singing

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• I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Passion, Flames

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• ...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, People, Possibility

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?

  Tom Waits

  Adventure, Giving, Profound

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• I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Imagination, Way

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• Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

  Richard Brautigan

  Coffee, Matter, Cups

  Richard Brautigan (2000). “Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.

  Steven Pinker

  Mother, Sleep, Boys

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.460, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Past, Knights, Might

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• Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Interview with Ken Page, www.psychologytoday.com. January 22, 2012.

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• I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

  David Walliams

  Book, Writing, Character

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

  David Nicholls

  Speed

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• The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

  Guy Pearce

  Communication, Independent, Film

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• I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

  Matthew Perry

  Trouble, Wells

  "Best Friend Forever". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. September 22, 2006.

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• As she stood down below him on the street,it seemed impossible that she'd connected with him as she had,but then,the phone was virtual relating,one step up from being online.Both people were in their own environments,invisible to each other,only their voices mixing.It was false intimacy.

  J.R. Ward

  Phones, Voice, People

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.236, Penguin

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• I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

  Nick Bantock

  Mistake, Thinking, Offering

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• But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Strong, Desire, Trying

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

  Bill Bryson

  Sitting, Height, Chairs

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• Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Emotional, Safe

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