- Nov 07, 2020
Alone Quotes
Alone doesn't always mean lonely.
The quotes here move between scientific uncertainty and personal isolation, including one reflection on feeling apart from mainstream family values and another on how loud music once made solitude bearable. For a shareable line, see our Status page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, applying for every research grant and overseas gig I hear of, then trying to extend those trips as far as the stipends will go. I love to travel alone.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my country was born, many people were sceptical about the chances for us to exist, let alone prosper.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I'm not alone. I think that's the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself - some sort of context of other women making things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020