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Quotes About Proximity

I marveled that people could live so close—that you could literally be surrounded by thousands who were only inches away—and yet be completely isolated.
~ Neal Shusterman
I marveled that people could live so close - that you could literally be surrounded by thousands who were only inches away - and yet be completely isolated. I found it hard to imagine. It's not hard for me to imagine anymore.
~ Neal Shusterman
Horseshoes and hand grenades.
~ Neal Shusterman
tienes la muerte cerca igual que una amante, más cerca, la conoces como la palma de tu mano como esa mancha en la pared como el nombre de tu hija.
~ Charles Bukowski
Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.
~ Tim O'Brien
At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death, and yet any soldier will tell you, if he tells the truth, that proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life. After a fight, there is always the immense pleasure of aliveness.
~ Tim O'Brien
At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death, and yet any soldier will tell you, if he tells the truth, that proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.
~ Tim O'Brien
Jacky couldn't help barking out one syllable of a laugh. "Not noddle, dottle. The ash from a clay pipe of his." She pointed at the glass vial. "Ceneromancy, it's called. Magic you do with ashes. It's kept him near me, since…since he was killed.
~ Tim Powers
We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice.
~ Tom Stoppard
close to the fire you could
~ Toni Morrison
I probably shouldn't trust you. But for some reason, I do. She climbed out of the car, and instantly his entire body wakened to her proximity. You're right, he whispered, lifting a hand to touch her cheek. You shouldn't trust me at all.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.
~ Kobo Abe
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.
~ Krista Scott-Dixon
Questions like, "How close is the angle of this object to vertical?" "Are any of the subject's dimensions the same?" "Where is this in relation to that?
~ Carl Purcell
The notion of "the present" refers to things that are close to us, not to anything that is far away. Our "present" does not extend throughout the universe. It is like a bubble around us.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Two nodes connected by a link are two nodes in proximity. They are two grains of space in contact with each other: this "touching" constructs the structure of space.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Space is a spin network whose nodes represent its elementary grains, and whose links describe their proximity relations. Spacetime
~ Carlo Rovelli
It describes how every physical object manifests itself to any other physical object.
~ Carlo Rovelli
street. All a car had to do was move closer, a door swing
~ Caroline Leavitt
He's far from a fool, nowhere near. I'm quite near. I can feel the fool that's so far away from him breathing down my neck.
~ Carrie Fisher
He's far from a fool, nowhere near. I'm quite near. I can feel the fool that's so far away from him breathing down my neck.
~ Carrie Fisher
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
~ Samuel Johnson
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
~ Ouida
If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.
~ Saudi Arabian proverb