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.
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous β or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night
You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
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