Intimacy Quotes - Page 17

• Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

  Harriet Lerner

  Two, Intensity

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Ronald Reagan was a traditionalist - who purposefully, effectively unleashed innovation and change in himself, in the nation, and in the world. He was a "great communicator" who achieved memorable intimacy with the people everywhere - yet he was often disengaged from his own family.

  James M Strock

  Memorable, People, Innovation

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• In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

  Hortense Calisher

  Family, Lines

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “On Keeping Women: A Novel”, p.264, Open Road Media

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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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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

  Donald Miller

  Honesty, Mean, Keys

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mean, Gossip

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• There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Mother, Religious, Blessed

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• ... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

  Adam Gopnik

  Photography, Sleep, Emotional

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• I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Sleep, Hard Times, Men

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• As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Viewpoints, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.

  Edan Lepucki

  Book, Loss, Safety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

  Anna Journey

  Shrimp, Cows, Superstitions

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

  Chelsea Martin

  Thinking, People, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

  Leigh Newman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

  Tom Barbash

  Thinking, Narrators, Vices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

  Gary LeVox

  Thinking, Energy, Littles

  "Rascal Flatts Talk Las Vegas Residency & Tour With Kelsea Ballerini". Interview With Chuck Dauphin, www.billboard.com. February 2, 2016.

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• Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

  Danielle Cormack

  Being In Love, Ongoing, Levels

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• If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

  George Saunders

  Respectful, Reader, Greater

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

  Scott Aukerman

  Cds, Records, Firsts

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."

  Scott Aukerman

  Book, Space, People

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• : But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

  B. J. Porter

  Thinking, Cds, People

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Cities, Creating, Guarantees

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only "real" in the space of the text.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Successful, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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