"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."

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Source : 1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

John Cheever

#Lonely Quotes #Being Alone Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.”
“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.”
“I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.”

Source : "Profile: Louis Susman, Obama's pick for ambassador to the UK" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.
“They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.”
“You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.”
“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”
“In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.”
“If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com

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