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"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."
"All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."
"The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart, and felt that she could come to church no more."
"We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."
"Sometime I wish if I were from Mars, because no one loves me here."
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"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."
"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."
"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."
"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."
"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."
"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."
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