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“And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.”— John Irving
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“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.”— Whitney Houston
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“I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.”— David Cameron
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“I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.”— Spike Lee
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“I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.”— Peter O'Toole
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“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”— Henry Adams
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“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“You only grow when you are alone.”— Paul Newman
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“To be adult is to be alone.”— Jean Rostand
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“If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”— O. Henry
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“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”— John Dryden
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“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.”— Elizabeth Bowen
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“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”— Jules Renard
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“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”— Thomas Hardy
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“Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.”— Gary Becker
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“Successful crimes alone are justified.”— John Dryden
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“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”— Susan Sontag
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“I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.”— Gerald R. Ford
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“As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.”— Tom Hanks
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“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.”— Thomas de Quincey
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“You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.”— Lenny Kravitz
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“Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.”— will.i.am
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“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”— George Berkeley
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“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”— John Berger
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“If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.”— Tori Amos