#intimacy

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

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

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

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cold #done #drawn #effect #experiment

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. ↗

— Mike Myers

#also #between #fame #intensity #intimacy

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#come #communication #films #great #i

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#characters #events #fiction #intimacy #places

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #comparable #everything #friends #friendships