#alone

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#antitrust #forbid #freak #knows #laws

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#do you know #know #like #love #to love

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #life

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. ↗

— Susan Powter

#anything #be original #because #few #few people

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#alone #any #bestow #country #desire

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream? ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#dream #interest #life #without

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#always #comes #happy #i #left

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#alone #art #capitol #century #come