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John Cheever
: 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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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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Simone De Beauvoir :
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One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."
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David Icke :
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It got to the point where I sat on the side of the bed in a hotel room in London in early 1990 and said to whoever or whatever: 'If you are there will you please contact or leave me because you are driving me up the wall'.
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Lew Wallace :
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
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William Sharp :
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I hear the little children of the wind Crying solitary in lonely places.
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P G Wodehouse :
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He had been looking like a dead fish. He now looked like a deader fish, one of last year's, cast up on some lonely beach and left there at the mercy of the wind and tides.
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Anaïs Nin :
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He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous."
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George Bernard Shaw :
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
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Joan Didion :
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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
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Howard Dean :
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"You think the RNC could get this many people of color into a single room?"..."Maybe if they got the hotel staff in there." [1]
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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
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Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.
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John Cheever:
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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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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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
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John Cheever:
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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