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Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

Jack Kerouac

Land, California, Broken

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

Walter de La Mare

Kings, Stars, Moving

Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.

David Foster Wallace

Mean, Order, Ideas

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SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?

Pascal Mercier

Clever, Loneliness, Space

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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

Leon Uris

Loneliness, Book, Mean

Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

Richard Brautigan

Beautiful, Love You, Home

Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

Chogyam Trungpa

Giving Up, Loneliness, Home

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What is it about men that make women so lonely?

Elliot Perlman

Relationship, Men, So Lonely

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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

Ernest Hemingway

Girl, Jealous, Men

Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

James Lee Burke

Girl, Baseball, Believe

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No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hurt, Men, Pigs

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.131, Macmillan

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I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Dr. Seuss

Life, Winning, Games

Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.

Jedediah Berry

Beautiful, People, Way

Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

Audrey Niffenegger

People, Bird, Safe

Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

Iain Banks

Night, Car, Leaving

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i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

Azar Nafisi

Dream, Past, Blood

Azar Nafisi (2015). “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, p.118, Penguin UK

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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Betty Smith

Book, Reading, Missing

BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hunter S. Thompson

Inspirational, Being Single, Heart

FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015

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Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Sebastian Faulks

Struggle, Organisms, Resourceful

Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

James Herriot

Father, Simple, Expression

James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

Marisha Pessl

Letting Go, America, Facts

Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.53, Penguin

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Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

Toni Morrison

Made, Mines

Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reading, School, Mirrors

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017). “F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned”, p.18, Lulu.com

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The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

Rob Sheffield

Feelings, Hungry, Hard

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.174, Crown Archetype

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I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

Joseph Conrad

Destiny, Belief, Desolation

Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.121, Broadview Press

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