Tantalizing Quotes (5 quotes)

“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own and in the end become the very truth… until the bubble bursts.("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alone, become, believe, bowling, bubble, burst, emotion, factoid, facts, fiction, grab, in-the-end, life, mix, politicians, reiterate, storytellers, tantalizing, tell, truth, unremitting, want

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“you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: flesh, phantom, sue-bridehead, tantalizing

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“Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: alluring, bashful, chastened-humility, deferential, desirable, diffidence, diffident, hot, humble, humbleness, life, luscious, lush, meek, meekness, modest, modesty, nubile, provocative, respectful, seductive, self-deprecating, self-effacing, sensual, sex, sexy, shy, slinky, subdued, submissive, sultry, tantalizing, tempting, toothsome, turn-off, turn-on, unassertive, unassertiveness, unassuming, unpresuming, voluptuous

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“When the release never comes, it turns into torture. There is nothing worse than to be perpetually on the verge of heaven, while trapped always in hell.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

tags: heaven, hell, limbo, prison, tantalizing, tantalus, torture

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“I can assure you, to have the carnal Holy Grail snatched from you at the very moment your lips were about to touch its rim is something that will torture your mind forever. Your wild imaginings about what you were just about to experience will haunt you until death.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

tags: holy-grail, love, tantalizing, tantalus, torture

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