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“I have had similar experiences as Jack Kerouac had while living alone. You do love your solitude and get time for yourself. You have all the time in the world for writing down your thoughts and experiences. You feel inspired to write them all down about your feelings, emotions, and happenings. But at times the loneliness does get to you! And sometimes you just keep staring at the sky to find the meaning of life.”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“Living on one's own is not always ideal - but then, neither is marriage. The mated format is charted territory. Those venturing into singlehood are the Lewis and Clarks of a pioneering lifestyle with few maps, unexpected ambushes, and an infinity of adventures. Therein lies its glory!”

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Book:Living Alone and Loving It

Source: Living Alone and Loving It

“Rule number one when cooking: never believe the recipe.”

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Book:Beirut to the 'burbs

Source: Beirut to the 'burbs

“I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.”

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Book:Storyville

Source: Storyville

“It´s a sin how happy I can be living alone like a hermit.”

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Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

“Like Bukowski I lived alone, but it never felt right.”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“The upside to living alone is that I'm the boss; the downside, I have to boss myself around a lot.”

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Book:We have our difference in common 2.

Source: We have our difference in common 2.

“Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.”

Source: The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

“You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.”

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Book:Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.”

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Author:Terry McMillan

“When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.”

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Author:Peter York

“There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.”

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Book:The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid

Source: The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid

“It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.”

Ifs Bed Rifles Living Alone

Book:Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.”

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Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?”

Source: Kingsor's Last Summer

“I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.”

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Author:Barbara Feldon

“Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.”

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Book:Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

“I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.”

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Author:Paul Lynde

“The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.”

Source: The Human Stain: A Novel

“I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself which is cool. I like to have my stuff exactly where I want it, so living alone is good for me.”

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Author:Keiynan Lonsdale

“A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?”

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Author:Jackie Kennedy

“I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for a couple of days, we would dig into the storage areas in the house and we'd get out all the pots that we might not see in the course of our daily life, because we weren't using them in the house on a steady basis. But we found some fantastic pots in there tucked away, and we could look at them and examine them and handle them.”

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Author:Warren MacKenzie

“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.”

“I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.”

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Author:Boy George

“When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.”

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Author:Lauren Bacall

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

“People living alone get used to loneliness.”

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Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.”

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Author:Ai Yazawa

“Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.”

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Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.”

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Book:Mother Night: A Novel

Source: Mother Night: A Novel

“Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“Thing was' he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, 'they bit of a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably think they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway' Neville laughed, 'Dawlish is still in St Mungo's and Gran is on the run. She sent me a letter,' he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, 'telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parents' son, and to keep it up”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”

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Book:One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.”

“I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not only are facts gathered that [are] often new in kind, but it is in these regions that wholly new concepts arise. It is my own faith that just as the older biology from its faithful studies of external forms provided a new concept in the doctrine of evolution, so the new biology is yet fated to furnish entirely new fundamental concepts of science, at which physics and chemistry when concerned with the non-living alone could never arrive.”

“I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.”

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Author:Mary Douglas

“Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.”

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Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.”

“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.”

Ifs Likes Living Alone

Author:Thelma Ritter

“When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.”

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.”

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Author:Barbara Feldon

“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”

Men Capable Living Alone

Book:The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books

Source: The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books

“My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants. She listens to the news on the radio. She drinks her coffee. She has a quick wash. An hour later, at seven, her day is over. Two months ago a neighbour told her about your blog, and she asked me to buy her one of those thingummyjigs – by a thingummyjig she meant a computer. And since then, thanks to your trimmings, your ribbon bows, your tie-backs for curtains, she’s rediscovered the joys of life. So don’t tell me you don’t know any answers.”

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

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Author:Mason Cooley