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“The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.”

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Book:Alone in America: the search for companionship

Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship

“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”

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Author:Ashley Montagu

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.”

Creative Learning Saws Heard Loneliness Television Lonely Radio Mood Not Afraid Abraham Franklin Being Lonely Leonardo

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.”

Night Black Loneliness Television Solitude Late Music Is Coffee Tea Being Alone Herbs Late Night Black Coffee

Book:Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

“Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins. Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought. When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away. But it doesn't go away. So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.”

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Author:Benjamin Hoff

“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