Becoming Quote 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…

— Thomas L. Dumm

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

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

— Thomas L. Dumm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.

— Thomas L. Dumm