Quotes with affair

  • If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
  • Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.

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  • Aldous Huxley Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Howar There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
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  • Amy Hempel A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
    The Dog of the Marriage (2010) 70
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
    Faceboek (2012)
    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • Bette Davis An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • John Updike An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Buck Henry Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • James Baldwin Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Camille Paglia For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Plautus Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bob Dole If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
    Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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