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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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Loneliness,

Author:

Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Loneliness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
  • 2. We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
  • 3. The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature with light with smells with time.
  • 2. It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food not supplements. Salmon walnuts blueberries spinach… lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.
  • 3. Croatia is an amazing place.

3 Anger

  • 1. The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
  • 2. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
  • 3. When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
  • 2. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 3. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
  • 2. Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
  • 3. Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture it's really difficult.
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