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• I'm not afraid to talk about God and it's something I have a faith in. But I feel his presence more in those really profound, quiet moments of solitude. I can't seem to get those as much around here in Nashville, so I go to seek them out. Iceland is probably the closest I ever felt to it. That place did a lot for my soul.

  Kip Moore

  Profound, Soul, Quiet

  "Kip Moore Reveals Red Carpet Anxieties, Why He's Soured on the Fruits of Success and If He'll Ever Settle Down". Interview with Eileen Finan, people.com. September 11, 2017.

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• What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Impulse, Schizophrenic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn't quite solitude, even if you're alone when it happens.

  Rachel Kushner

  Art, Thinking, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and one that I've learned to push against - is to give primacy to a character's interior world. Over the three books that I've written, I've had to teach myself that not every feeling needs to be described and that often the most impactful writing more elegantly evokes those unnamed feelings through the way characters speak and behave.

  Stefan Merrill Block

  Book, Writing, Character

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• After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Night, Appreciate

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• It's very easy to fall back unto my old ways when I'm working a lot. It's important for me to continue to find solitude and peace in nature and escape the city and the industry as much as possible. That's where I reconnect and remind myself what I learned in that time in the woods when I was isolated and I recharge myself. If I don't have that, it would be really easy for me to fall apart again.

  Skylar Grey

  Fall, Important, Easy

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• I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Art, Writing, Focus

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• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

  Louis Aragon

  Love, Two, People

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• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Silence, Loner, Gregarious

  "A question of faith" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  Saint Basil

  Should Have, Voice, Silence

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• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Night, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (2007). “Labyrinths”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Men, Society

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.387, Penguin

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• What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Light, Needs

  "As Byatt" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2004.

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• Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

  Lord Byron

  Loneliness, Feelings, Infinite

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

  Billy Campbell

  Hard Work, Sea, Profound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Courage, Lying

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

  Eric Clapton

  Quiet, Quiet Life

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• I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

  Claire Danes

  Being Alone, Thinking, Imagination

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Literature, World, Weight

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

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• Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, War, Community Living

  Allen Ginsberg (2007). “Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Night, Silence

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• Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.119, Vintage

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• I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Personality, Solitary

  "'20/20': Walters Interviews Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  Washington Irving

  Grieving, Funeral, Bereavement

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.270

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• Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Philosophy, Real, Hatred

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