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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
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"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."
"Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done."
"When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you've been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends."
"Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations."
"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"
"Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!"
"I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
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