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"The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got."
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"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."

"Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted."

"He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means."

"We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart."

"I love my loneliness as you do love your virginity."

"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."

"One moment you see that you aren't so Original... people leave you... people start ignoring you... people start making excuses."

"Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing."

"If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in."
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"For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school."

"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."

"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."

"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."

"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
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