Propinquity Quotes

• The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

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  Quentin Crisp

  Love   Thinking   Style  

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

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  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Needs   Kind   Born  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

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  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Marriage   Space   Woven  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

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  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom   Lonely   Loneliness  

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

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  Keith Miller

  Character   Long   Plot  

  1329

• True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

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  Helen Rowland

  Love Is   Years   Long  

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

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  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance   Light   Sight  

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

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  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Thinking   Clouds   Remember You  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

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  Potter Stewart

  Giving   Criminals   Doe  

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