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Quotes About Proximity

Mr. Tyler, drop the anchor. We are as close
~ Wilbur Smith
He dont have to move very far to go nuts in the first place and so he dont have so far to come back.
~ William Faulkner
To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It's what we forget about someone that lets us find some peace, some happiness.
~ Christopher G. Moore
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.
~ Helen Fisher
From where I sit, London's a lot closer than 17th street.
~ Helene Hanff
Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.
~ Henri Cole
Intimates are predestined.
~ Henry Adams
ces quelques lignes nous livrent peut-être le suprême message de la philosophie ismaélienne : " L'Imam a dit : Je suis avec mes amis partout où ils me cherchent, sur la montagne, dans la plaine et dans le désert. Celui à qui j'ai révélé mon Essence, c'est-à-dire la connaissance mystique de moi-même, celui-là n'a pas besoin d'une proximité physique. Et c'est cela la Grande Résurrection.
~ Henry Corbin
And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
~ Leonard Cohen
Stacey stepped closer. Closer. Until the tips of her boot-clad feet touched his shoes and their clothes brushed. The place was wrong; the timing was even more wrong. But everything else about the moment
~ Leslie A. Kelly
The further off from England the nearer is to France—Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
~ Lewis Carroll
A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.
~ Phil Elverum
Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.
~ Dick Costolo
Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central.
~ Trey Parker
Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.
~ Gregory Benford
There is enormous value in face to face interaction.
~ Sebastian Thrun
BONO AND HIS family had moved around the corner from us on Central Park West. We could wave at each other from our terraces.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Desiderio, Odio, Vita, Morte erano terribilmente vicini nell'ombra
~ Jean Rhys
We always think the thing we need to transform everything - the miracle - is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.
~ Jeanette Winterson
the nearness of the wound to the gift
~ Jeanette Winterson
I wondered how anyone finds closeness when violence is so near it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
~ Naomie Harris
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.
~ Rip Torn