Quotes with affair

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  • Ray Bradbury 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.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Emily Carr Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Ben Parr The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The love affair you seek is with yourself.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Agnes de Mille The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bernard Malamud 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.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Alfred Kazin When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
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  • Rose Tremain When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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