Intimacy Quotes - Page 27

• Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

  William Shenstone

  Together, Woods, Fool

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.231

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• The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

  Judith Martin

  Family, Different, World

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• Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Character, Uniforms

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

  Freya Stark

  Animal, Technology, Thinking

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

  Mary Harron

  Secret, Cameras, Lenses

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Character, Eye, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 16)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. October 4, 2013.

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• To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

  George Sand

  Together, Meals, Satisfaction

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

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• The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Friendship, Party, Opportunity

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100

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• Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

  Merle Shain

  Sex, Deep Love, Fire

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Marriage, Couple, Book

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• You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Emotional

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• In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

  Nancy Friday

  Baby, Forever, Soul

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• After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

  Nancy Friday

  Sex, Fall, Men

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• A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Children, Suffering, Firsts

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

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• Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

  Rebecca Solnit

  Communication, Technology, Phones

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.258, Trinity University Press

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• It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

  Laura Furman

  Dream, Reading, Able

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• When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Thinking, Scary, Erotic

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• However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Horizon, Four

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• Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Today Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.131, 谷月社

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• I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.

  Barbara Padilla

  Nice, Character, Self

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. August 01, 2015.

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• You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.

  Gary Zukav

  Grief, Loss, Men

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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• My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.

  Fergie

  Dirty, Air, Space

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

  Colin Callender

  Powerful, Thinking, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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