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"Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship."
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"We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time."
"Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon."
"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."
"The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain."
"Dad? Dad, no. No. I can't. I can't. Why are you saying these things?'Because I can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you."
"Do you have a shoulder to cry on?Someone who would listen to your deepest woes without judging you?Or is it just you and the image in the mirror?"
"He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech."
"These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love."
"We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces."
"For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view."
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"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."
"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
"Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist."
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
"I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents."
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