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• His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.

  Munro Leaf

  Happiness, Mother, Understanding

  Munro Leaf (1977). “El cuento de Ferdinando”, Puffin

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• I don't remember a voice
  On a dark, lonesome road
  When I started this journey so long ago
  I was only just trying to outrun the noise
  There was never a question of having a choice

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Dark, Journey, Long Ago

  Song: The Calling, Album: The Calling

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• I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

  Mark Twain

  Two, Smoking, Balance

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• Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Crazy, Book

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• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  Brad Gooch

  Education, Teaching, Cutting

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• I count no more my wasted tears;
  They left no echo of their fall;
  I mourn no more my lonesome years;
  This blessed hour atones for all.
  I fear not all that Time or Fate
  May bring to burden heart or brow,-
  Strong in the love that came so late,
  Our souls shall keep it always now!

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Famous Love, Strong, Fall

  Elizabeth Akers Allen, “At Last”

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• A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Dog, Want

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.71, Hill and Wang

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• All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

  Euripides

  Children, Mean, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Stars, Shining

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dog, Kids, Men

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• I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Ignorance, Practice

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

  Joan Baez

  Nature, Storm, Things Change

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Self, House, Brain

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that dream when you know what lonesome is looking for a home like a bird in flight.

  Jon Stewart

  Dream, Home, Heart

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• I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

  Waylon Jennings

  Religious, Tired, Mean

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• Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Children, Hate

  Song: Fixin' To Die Blues, Album: Bob Dylan, 1962

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• Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Children, Night, Light

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.113

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• Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Long, Shells

  JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”

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• On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rainy Day, Men, Doe

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• As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Journey, Land, Hiking

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• The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Sadness, World, Saws

  Song: Billy Dee

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• The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome - so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back. [That's] $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, Numbers

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• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Heart, Airplane

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

  Robert Duvall

  Wise, Two, Lonesome Dove

  "Robert Duvall Shines in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2006.

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• A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

  John Steinbeck

  Stars, Loneliness, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.441, Penguin

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