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  • Stephen King Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Meister Eckhart Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Russell H. Conwell Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • Margaret Drabble Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 103
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Lord George Byron My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Barry Manilow No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Hermann Broch No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • Candice Bergen Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Francoise Sagan Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Anita Diamant One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Ford One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
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  • Bill Simmons Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Berger Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Kingsley Amis Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Carol Roth Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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