I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn’t blame Cambridge alone. I wasn’t ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock. 971
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers. 596
I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That’s a perfect night alone for me. 684
I don’t like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I’m an obsessed mixer and I can’t leave it alone. 590
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. 2.41K
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. 508
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you’re not alone. 1.83K
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. 764
If there’s ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience. 1.89K
People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on. 538
There’s this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. 503
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. 510
Glasgow’s not a media center. When you’re there, when you’re hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. 614
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. 2.37K
I don’t understand the Democrats’ approach to Social Security in this country, and I’m not alone. 2.41K
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone. 545