Love is a fan club with only two fans.
Interpretation
This quote humorously suggests that love can be a very exclusive bond between two people.
Gore Vidal's quote metaphorically portrays love as a small fan club, emphasizing that true love often involves an intimate connection between just two individuals, rather than a large audience or many supporters. This reflects the notion that the depth and authenticity of love lie in the shared experiences and emotional support of just two people, rather than seeking validation from the outside world.
In practice
A wedding toast celebrating the couple's unique love for each other.
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.
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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
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