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"The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling - a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing."
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"Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his."
"The world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon."
"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."
"To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand."
"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."
"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."
"I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world."
"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote."
"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."
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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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