The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
Marguerite Duras
Related In grace and beauty and sheer fascination, they were alike. But where Katherine had been a white kit... L.J. SMITH [...] that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a sm... MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention. BERNARD BECKETT The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being ... MILLICENT FENWICK Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. KEITH RICHARDS Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her ERNEST HEMINGWAY The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wron... P.G. WODEHOUSE The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wron... P. G. WODEHOUSE I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascinati... ROB ZOMBIE I always had a fascination with twins. FRANCINE PASCAL Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked. WILLIAM COWPER Are the mass media on the side of the power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the si... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual ... STARHAWK My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to... ISSEY MIYAKE I have a fascination with that. Acting like anybody that you want to be, it's a pretty cool thing. WILLIAM ANDREWS Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age ma... WALT WHITMAN Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may... WALT WHITMAN I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. SARAH DESSEN Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't... RUSSELL SMITH I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as ... DARIN STRAUSS The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. LUKE EVANS For you see Miss Lucy Graham was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can c... MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON A food that would actually explode was an endless source of fascination. WENDY BOERSEMA Personal trials are the great equalizer that continues to draw public fascination. ALANA STEWART Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basica... CHRIS SCHAFFER If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicat... CATHERINE TOON If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicat... CATHERINE TOON Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s... SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I've always had a fascination about mixing music. BLAKE MICHAEL Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination... JOSE SARAMAGO We here on Earth have long held a fascination with the planet Mars. CHIKAI OHAZAMA We all have this deep-rooted fascination with the wild, NICK JANS The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject. CARLY RAE JEPSEN I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general. ERIC BROWN And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love. ANDY WARHOL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s... SUSAN SONTAG I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French... JULIETTE BINOCHE It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side ... JEFF VANDERMEER My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. SEAN BEAN Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt. WALTER SCOTT Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequ... MEG WHITE There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pi... BO DEREK I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks ... STEVE TRUGLIA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us. LAURA WADE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS There's a curiosity factor, but not a fascination like there used to be. KITTY KELLEY Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view... ERNST HAAS The super-premiums are tapping into the American drinking consumer's fascination with flavor. RICHARD BRANDES What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game&... DOUG LIMAN I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school. PATRICK CARNEY The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. H. P. LOVECRAFT Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo... ELLEN WRIGHT If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat—or in film’s case “run on”—manifests ... J.P. DELANEY He seemed to have a fascination with this stuff, ... We don't know, really, what he was up to. There... JAMES WATT Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in ... ALAN MOORE Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for... JEROME LAWRENCE Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. I... CAITLIN DOUGHTY There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is tha... KEVIN RUDD The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the low... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives. CALISTA FLOCKHART I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. EDGAR RAMIREZ My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. JELLO BIAFRA My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - mani... ANDY WARHOL The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired ... PETER AGRE Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like h... SHAWN AMOS Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to ... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No longer will we be an object of fascination for others, who would consider us a strange and an est... THABO MVUYELWA MBEKI It's not a fascination. I didn't watch The Bachelor, but my friends did. Being local, obviously ther... LONIE GLIEBERMAN I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ALBERT EINSTEIN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. J.R.R. TOLKIEN When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation... HENRY REED Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? WALT WHITMAN The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look a... SONYA LEVIEN I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will. ROSS KEMP I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptile... NICOLAS CAGE A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public executio... MICHAEL FOOT What a potpourri of emotions are mixed up in this one. Passion, heartache, exaltation, distress, fas... KARL WIGGINS I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride -... DANA PERINO I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to beco... BERKELEY BREATHED There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is... THOMAS FORAN The market was buoyant; speculation was rampant; and the outside public, the delight and prey of Wal... JOHN MOODY Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter. CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN and firstly, let me beware of the fascination that lurks in Catherine Heathcliff's brilliant eyes. I... EMILY BRONTë Pornographic material seems to hold a fascination for the human species. It's a human trait. It does... GARY EDINGER Buses took care of that side of my fascination. And music took care of the other. And they both co-e... DAVID LEPPLA It's a serious pursuit and a fascination, ... I write for dozens of publications about all sorts of ... CHESTER MOORE I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seem... LEON EDEL Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't... HENRY JENKINS Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o... DAVID CASSIDY I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in... ARIEL GARTEN
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