Love Affair Quotes - Page 10

• From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home.

  Maneet Chauhan

  Home, Nashville, Cities

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• When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

  Rose Tremain

  Pieces, Kind, Affair

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• Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.

  Little Walter

  Way, Affair, Harps

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• For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Men, Average

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• We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

  Lillian Hellman

  Thinking, Eggs, Important

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.200, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Two, Meat

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Friendship, Desire, Way

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• I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

  Margaret Mead

  Religious, Animal, Hands

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• The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

  Aleister Crowley

  Silly, Boredom, Way

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.47, Weiser Books

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• The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

  Diane Ackerman

  Curiosity, Life Is, Hills

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Goes On, World

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Grateful, Reading, Promise

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• It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

  Gloria Stuart

  Rain, Struggle, Alaska

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• You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Interesting, Ego

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• For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Memories, Reading

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• I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Friendship, Dog, Long

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• Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

  Julio Cortazar

  Eye, Color, Kingdoms

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.480, Pantheon

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• The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Use, Affair

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• Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

  Frank Popoff

  Success, Mean, Aversion

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• 'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

  Jamie Cullum

  Country, Sex, Japan

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• Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

  Margot Adler

  Mean, Dark, Views

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• "Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

  Judith Butler

  Sweet, New York, Mean

  Source: ilga.org

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• God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Trying, Affair

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

  John Newcombe

  Wimbledon, Affair

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