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be intimate

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Meaning

have sexual intercourse with

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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. Barbara De Angelis

It would be pleasant to be drunk: faithless to my tongue and hands, giving up the boundaries for the heroic gin. Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool. I will try it shortly. Anne Sexton

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. Laura Dern

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have. Keith Miller

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife. Angelina Jolie

Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box. Robertson Davies

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