"We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it."

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Source : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.29, Beacon Press

Philip Slater

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“It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”
“There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.”

Source : "Samantha Bee". Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.
“Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2000). “To be two”, Athlone Press
“If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.”

Source : "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 64), December 1994.
“Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.”
“I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.”

Source : "Bye-bye Baby" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.
“Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.”
“The secret weapon is cucumber.' Solange sat all the way up. 'Jasmine, cover your ears.' MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing. 'Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter.' 'MY mind is just fine, thank you. It's MaryAnn's I'm concerned about.' 'You put them on your eyes,' MaryAnn said, laughing even harder.”

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