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"Solitude is un-American."
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"It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place."
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"People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth."
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"Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed."
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"Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast;I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest.Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie;While mirth, and truth, and friendship shineIn smiling lip and earnest eye.The ice that gathers round my heartMay there be thawed; and sweetly, then, The joys of youth, that now depart, Will come to cheer my soul again."
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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
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"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."
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"A wounded heart needs aloof."
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"I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?"
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"And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own."
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Risk
"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
Friendship
"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
Life
"We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it."
Suffering
"Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately."
Literature
"Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador."
Society
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Advice
"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."
Style
"Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household."
Art
"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it."
Advice
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