#close

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#discloses #painter #photographer

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#desire #love #love

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apart #because #closed #curtains #draw

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#close #eyes #i #often #tolerate

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like. ↗

— John Barton

#belong #busier #children #close #community

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#close #each #everyday #friends #get

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#been #did #difficult #disclose #facts

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#actual #actual process #closely #examining #i

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#cross #false #friends #instant #into