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Solitary Quotes

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Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
Robert Brustein

Authors on Solitary Quotes: Virginia Woolf Christie Golden Martha Manning Nathanael West Robert Burton Walter Benjamin Danny Fox John Michael Talbot Ron Kaufman Alexander Liberman Abraham Cowley Nicole Krauss Tom Robbins Berthold Auerbach Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Fran Lebowitz Wendy Carlos Catherine Camus John Wesley F. Scott Fitzgerald Roy Blount, Jr. Alphonse de Lamartine Edward Young Graham Greene Sebastian Faulks Beth Harbison Michelle Cliff Paul Auster Marc Guggenheim Will Self Bernard Cornwell Joyce Carol Oates Zooey Deschanel
2.
A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
Che Guevara

3.
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
Alphonse de Lamartine

4.
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
Virginia Woolf

5.
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
Henry David Thoreau

6.
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

7.
The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
Kevin Kline

8.
Writing is a solitary occupation.
Bernard Cornwell

9.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Ovid

10.
Composition has almost always been solitary.
Wendy Carlos

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The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Will Self

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Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
Graham Greene

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The artist after all is a solitary being.
Virginia Woolf

15.
Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
Anita Loos

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The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
John Wesley

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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.
Sebastian Faulks

18.
The vain being is the really solitary being.
Berthold Auerbach

19.
I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?
Sylvia Plath

20.
Be not solitary, be not idle
Robert Burton

21.
We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.
John Michael Talbot

22.
All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.
Alexander Liberman

23.
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Karl Kraus

24.
The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.
Jeffrey Eugenides

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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
Boris Pasternak

26.
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
Ewan McGregor

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One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
Sheryl Crow

28.
I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.
Jacobo Timerman

29.
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
Jose Bergamin

30.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
Martha Beck

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It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.
Syncletica of Alexandria

32.
Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

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I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.
Fran Lebowitz

34.
Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

35.
To garden is a solitary act.
Michelle Cliff

36.
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
Barbara Ascher

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Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
Robert A. Heinlein

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Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.
Paul Auster

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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emile M. Cioran

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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.
Albert Einstein

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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.
Elizabeth Bowen

42.
Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.
Virginia Woolf

43.
It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
Nathanael West

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Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.
Martha Manning

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Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.
Paulo Coelho

46.
Life is not a solitary activity. Live well by living for others.
Ron Kaufman

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I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
Nicole Krauss

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I love all waste and solitary places.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.
Alanis Morissette

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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
Tom Robbins