#imac

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#intimacy

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. ↗

— Joe Williams

#aesthetic #almost #between #bringing #forget

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#basic #beneficent #female #goddess #independent

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#convey #film #harder #i #i think

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. ↗

— James Dickey

#complicity #deep #feeling #intimacy #sex

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

#feels #few #followers #had #i

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me. ↗

— Luke Ford

#fault #i #intimacy #lack #me

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#intimacy #life #person #private #private life