Sitting Alone Quotes - Page 2

• The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fighting, Ideas, Sitting

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

  Joseph Heller

  Stupid, Sleep, Night

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Glowing, Sitting, Neon

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Writing, Listening, Sitting

  Source: dishmag.com

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• I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me. ... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

  Rachel Lambert Mellon

  Government, Important, Campaigns

  "The Worst Part of the Edwards Case" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. June 3, 2011.

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• All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Self

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• Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.

  Paul Auster

  Struggle, Writing, Hands

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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• Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with tears streaming down his face …. I suppose we should all try to find something better or worse to shed tears for than a game, no matter how hard it has been played, but perhaps it is not such a bad thing to see that men can cry at all.

  Roger Angell

  Men, Games, Tears

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