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"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."
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"And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss."

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

"Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows."

"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"

"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."

"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."

"One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it."

"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."

"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business."
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