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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/one-of-the-reasons-i-always-come-back-to-representations-of/)

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## More by Thomas L. Dumm

> [None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/none-of-us-is-perfect-but-the-point-of-our-writing-is-to-try-to/)

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> [There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/there-are-degrees-of-loneliness-ways-in-which-the-experience-of/)

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> [Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/of-course-each-of-us-has-to-write-our-own-book-live-our-own-life/)

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> [In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/in-one-of-my-favorite-anecdotes-about-foucault-someone-asks-him-why/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/usually-we-think-that-good-loneliness-is-what-we-call-solitude-the/)

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> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/i-worry-that-we-don-t-currently-have-a-democracy-in-the-united-states/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/it-is-an-admonition-to-myself-when-i-am-reading-other-people-s-books/)

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> [As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/as-lovers-of-truth-we-want-to-be-close-to-it-sometimes-evil-thought/)

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> [One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/one-of-the-reasons-i-always-come-back-to-representations-of/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/i-look-back-on-some-of-my-early-reviews-of-others-and-realize-to-my/)

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> [At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/at-some-point-just-about-all-of-us-experience-loneliness-in-a-sense/)

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> [We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/we-can-never-leave-loneliness-behind-completely-it-is-part-of-what/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/i-m-pretty-sure-my-dog-pip-gets-lonely-when-there-is-no-one-to-be/)

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> [Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/worldwide-the-twentieth-century-has-seen-the-rise-of-extraordinary/)

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