“I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.” WritingSometimesFunSocialStuffEnjoyVoiceMy OwnRecordsStandingLonelyDemosStanding AloneSo Lonely Author:Sondre Lerche
“Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.” WorldFeelingsIndividualSocialCan DoMoralMovementLonelyOppositesWitnessSolidaritySuperiorityBearing Witness Author:Ellen Willis
“Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.” ThinkingLongSocialNaturalRacismLonelyArtificialSocial SystemsSoutherner Author:Carson McCullers
“Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.” PeopleKnowsWorldGivingCharacterProblemYoungSocialInterestingPartyClassWrittenLonelinessMajorsLonelyTablesGuestsSpectatorsConsumingTouristsSocial LifeRomanticismSceneryDisillusionmentCafesUpper ClassBallroomMajor Problems Author:James T. Farrell