One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life.… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us. — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
