People tend to keep their distance.
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Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Do we need distance to get close?
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
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