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" Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference. "

" The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone. "

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" Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to the office which now I hold. When I consented, it was for the sake of the king alone. When I was elected, I was formally acquitted of my responsibilities for all that I had done as a chancellor. "

" Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. "

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

John Lanchester

" God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. "

" People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone! "

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" I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. "

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" In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone. "

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" Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I'm traveling with. "

" My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. "

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

" Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. "

" I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. "

" We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. "

James Anthony Froude

" Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things. "

" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "

" I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. "

" It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. "

" If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone. "

" I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line. "

" Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone. "

" You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. "

" If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. "

" He travels the fastest who travels alone. "

Rudyard Kipling

" The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. "

" It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. "