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" A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone. "

John Lanchester

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" I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible. "

" There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat. "

" Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. "

" It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. "

Terry Pratchett

" A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand. "

" India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. "

" I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American. "

Stephen Colbert

" When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web. "

" I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn't do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there. "

Katherine Johnson

" Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. "

" The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. "

" Schizophrenia beats dining alone. "

" What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation. "

" Good wishes alone will not ensure peace. "

" These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. "

" I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. "

Mallory Ortberg

" A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. "

" Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. "

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" A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. "

Henry Kissinger

" From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone. "

" Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme. "

" For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth. "

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" There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. "

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" So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. "

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" When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too. "

" If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. "

Richard Lovelace

" I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. "