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• The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Men, Mourning

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• In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.

  Andrew Tudor

  Reflection, Men, Hollywood

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• It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Journey

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

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• The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Stars, Cheer, Night

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• Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

  Julianne MacLean

  Writing, Occupation, Way

  Julianne MacLean (2016). “The Color of a Christmas Miracle”, p.163, Julianne MacLean

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• Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that drives this guilty wish To walk serenely in front of family to collect my kiss and though this notion is as flawed as any I have learned I'd like to think that like the others, it's something I deserve

  Happy Rhodes

  Kissing, Thinking, Long

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• I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sadness, Chill, Consumed

  Song: All I Really Want, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Writing, Thinking, Community

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• From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Our World, Apples

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.60

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• It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

  Neil Jordan

  Book, Writing, Way

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• I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

  Nicole Krauss

  Fall, Character, Spectrum

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• Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Greatness, Men, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an organism. A certain dynamism. At The Village Voice, there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers. The New Yorker used to be notorious for everything that went on, sexual intrigues and people had individual offices, they could close the door and take a bottle out of their bottom drawer or have sex on their desk.

  James Wolcott

  Writing, People, Office

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Writing, Simple

  "'Let's Pretend This Never Happened' by Jenny Lawson". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.

  Marketa Irglova

  Nice, Writing, Doors

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• A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

  Mary Antin

  Eye, Progress, Facts

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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• When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Jobs, Kids

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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• “Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

  Mark Leyner

  Reading, Writing, Certainty In Life

  "Mark Leyner On “War, Inc.”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2008.

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• It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lonely, Nature, Fall

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• Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

  Nirmalananda

  Yoga, Support, Venture

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

  William Hazlitt

  Stars, Reality, Sky

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• The vain being is the really solitary being.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Vanity, Vain

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.463

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