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122 Closeness quotes by 100 unique authors

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving… — Sloane Crosley
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. — Carrie Fisher
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. — Henri Nouwen
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new… — Henri Nouwen
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. — Willie Stargell
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.… — John Irving
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the… — David Guterson
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering… — Pope Benedict XVI
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could… — Louise GluÌˆck
Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us. — Christopher Paolini
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. — Cormac McCarthy
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you… — Peter Brook
Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it. — Ai Yazawa
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,… — Charles Dickens
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who… — Robert M. Pirsig
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent… — Maggie Stiefvater
Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too… — Gabrielle Zevin
Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me… — Vasily Grossman
What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is… — Henry Rollins
...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son. — Anne Tyler
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,… — Chaim Potok
The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him… — Jana Oliver
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,… — Virginia Woolf
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and… — Piers Anthony

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