Intimacy Quotes - Page 16

• What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.

  Will Self

  Character, Mean, Class

  "Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2009.

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• You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Real, Artist, Long

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• When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.

  Anton du Beke

  Giving, Dancing, Hug

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• I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Thinking, Followers, Kind

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• What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

  Bob Colacello

  Emotion, Meanness, Coldness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're looking for ways always as the writer to bring readers into intimacy, you with them with you. Photos can sometimes do the opposite, create distance and perspective, but these somehow didn't. They somehow bring the reader closer.

  Nicole Krauss

  Distance, Perspective, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Emotional, Storytelling, Enough

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities. It's that intimate collaboration that is actually directing. I don't like the mechanicalness or coldness; I like the intimacy. It's like we are creating a child together.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Children, Together, Collaboration

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Sibling, Kids, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

  Sarah Brightman

  Focus, Musical, Theatre

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• Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

  Junot Diaz

  Profound, Infidelity, Raises

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• Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Sex, Hard

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• With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

  Mike Myers

  Fame, Intensity

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• If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Friend, Love Is, Enemy

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.23, Image

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• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

  John Updike

  Reading, Life Is Too Short, Writing

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hero, Worship, Christ

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• The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Happiness, Issues, Self

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• Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

  Nora Ephron

  Feminism, Consciousness, Illusion

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.97, Vintage

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• The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

  Aberjhani

  Relationship, Love You, Millions

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

  Julia Cameron

  Roots, Anorexia, Artistic

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.257, Souvenir Press

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• The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Simple, Emotional

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• People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Couple, Law, Circles

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• You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Silence, Deaf

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• Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying but it shows just where the problems are. Of course, I do get bored of the words after a while. I take breaks from them so that we can breathe. And by the time I'm done with my umpteenth regurgitation, I hate the words. They become flavorless chewing gum. Like how really old gum gets once it starts disintegrating in your mouth. Gum that's lost its elasticity and feels like a sweater.

  Myriam Gurba

  Hate, Bored, Done

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• Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

  Herman Melville

  Reading, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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