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“Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.”

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Mason Cooley was an enigmatic writer and critic whose works spanned a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, literature, and everyday life. Known for his concise, profound, and humorous style, he was greatly admired by readers. more

“I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.”

People States Asks Felt United Accepting United States Struggle Rights Willing Constitution Unions Constitution Of The United States

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.”

Needs Long Self Seems Mother Forever Risk Standing Remains Yearning Urgent Parting Initiate Standing Alone

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.”

Two War Dark Rooms Dog Moon Two Things Frightening Not Alone High Places Indigestion

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.”

World Believe Lying Difficult Radio Plenty Lions Lambs Peace And Love Happy Place Propagandist

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”

Men Might Me Alone Bad Man Alone Time

Author:Sophocles

“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”

House Wish Chemicals Affinity

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.”

Ifs Ideas Remember Tunes Latin Prescriptions Ravel

Author:Les Dawson

“If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.”

Ifs States All Things Progressive Collapse Considering Discourse Propositions

Book:The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Source: The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

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