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“Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.”

Writing Loneliness Advantage Privacy Occupation Solitary Autonomy Hazards

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.”

Loneliness Traditional Luxury Privacy Skipper

Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

“Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.”

Loneliness Lonely Privacy

Author:Alexander Theroux

“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”

Men Wells Spirit Individual Nations Destiny Loneliness Terrible Holy Conscience Lonely Affair Every Man Isolation Privacy

Book:Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

“The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.”

Stills Use Artist Century Loneliness Lonely Symbols Not Sure Privacy Twentieth Century Symbolism Ransom

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”

Loneliness Independence Isolation Privacy King Of Attolia Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.”

Love Loneliness Respect Independence Affair Rational Gentle Privacy Alliances Love Affair

Author:Richard Bach

“There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.”

Source: The Queen of the Damned

“We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.”

Desire Loneliness Privacy Torn We Need Each Other Away From Each Other

Book:Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

“Next, I went in the shower to lather every inch of my body and stayed for so long inside, I walked away with soggy fingertips. I think we should have soggy fingertips at least once a day. The shower is the only place we can be ourselves before they take us away again.”

Soul Meditation Loneliness Identity Reflection Discovery Privacy Finding Yourself The Goodbye Song Knowing Yourself

Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.”

Human Nature Loneliness Privacy

Book:Lexicon

Source: Lexicon