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Quotes About Connection

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
~ Norman Maclean
So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.
~ Norman Maclean
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
~ Norman Mailer
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
~ Norman Mailer
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
~ Norman Mailer
There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.
~ Norman Mailer
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
~ Norman Mailer
Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.
~ Norman Mailer
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
~ Norman McLaren
The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.
~ Norman O. Brown
The alternative to dualism is dialectics: that is to say, love
~ Norman O. Brown
Compare Nietzsche's doctrine of the necessary connection between suffering and art: "What must this people have suffered, that they might become thus beautiful." 6
~ Norman O. Brown
What is always speaking silently is the body.
~ Norman O. Brown
I started at the bottom and loved just one; and if you love one, you can love many; and if many, you can love all.
~ Unknown
I always think that the essence of a good dinner- or breakfast-party is not the tablecloth, nor even the nature of the food, but the company. I think precisely the same concerning the Lord's Supper.
~ Unknown
He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To
~ Unknown
Constipation predominant IBS - The methane connection.
~ Unknown
Literature is humanity talking to itself.
~ Norman Rush
Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.
~ Norman Rush
In love and mating, ambience is central.
~ Norman Rush
And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of what they were to be Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Norman Rush
What I was suddenly afraid of was our perihelion, the closest we would ever approach or be, and that everything after this would transpire between bodies farther apart. I was thinking that if you looked back over the trajectory of every mating once it was over, there would be an identifiable perihelion.
~ Norman Rush
Few experiences can match the heady pleasure of trailing one's hand gently through the cool smoothness of water, of feeling the surging movement, the gentle increase of pressure and caress between the fingers with each pull of the oars.
~ Unknown
You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.
~ Norman Thomas