"There’s a difference between being alone and being……" — Mary Ruefle
"There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do."
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Mary Ruefle
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19 Quotes by Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle has 19 quotes on this site.
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
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The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
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My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among…
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I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty…
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I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.
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In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time,…
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There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the…
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke…
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If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
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In the end I would rather wonder than know
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Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
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More Alone Quotes
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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