The point of books was to combat loneliness
David Lipsky
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GARY F EVANS... Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"
"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY I wanted to earn a living wage and to see something nice about me in the 'New York Times.' I...
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DAVID LIPSKY The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the pri...
MARTINA TUTKOVá Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written bec...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.
LAUREN KATE Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
DAVID OGILVY I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev...
PLATO A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.
Not only do you learn in the journey ...
LIZ HAY Loneliness is an unhappy compound of having lost one's point of reference, of suffering the fate of ...
LUDWIG BINSWANGER She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.
HILDA VAN STOCKUM How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Music was invented to confirm human loneliness
LAWRENCE DURRELL The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
HARUKI MURAKAMI There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At le...
L.M. MONTGOMERY What's the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
But the loneliness wil...
ASPER BLURRY I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.
BILL CALLAHAN I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.
BILLY CASPER I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
CECELIA AHERN Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that lonelines...
DORIS LESSING It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
ROBIN SACREDFIRE Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.
LEIGH BARDUGO I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I tho...
GRAHAM NASH All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be...
ERIK HANSON And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
[Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words.
ADM C. TURNER JOY And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the ...
BIBLE Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read somethi...
HELEN HUMPHREYS David was catnip and kryptonite to me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together hap...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
ALLISON BURNETT David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hi...
TERRY SOUTHERN Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David
CARLA LYNNE HALL It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I migh...
ERIK LARSON The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.
LEIGH BARDUGO I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev...
PLATO I can understand the league's point of view, but I'd like to put Stu Jackson and [commissioner] Davi...
LARRY BROWN David was then shot in the chest.
ALVIN BEST David was very enthusiastic about the transaction.
BOB DAVIS And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
BIBLE You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publish...
TONY ROSS That's the nature of journalism. And it's the nature of combat, ... To criticize the media for cover...
CLARENCE WYATT As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in ...
CATHERINE HICKS But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my c...
JESSICA KNOLL The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
LARRY WILCOX Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the S...
RICHARD CARMONA Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic fo...
BRUCE DICKINSON History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs ...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Once Thaddeus found out that David Miller was going to run, he decided to step back and throw his su...
BOB STORMAN Loneliness is worse but the worst kind of loneliness is when you are in a crowd of people.
VIKRANT PARSAI If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we...
FERNAND POINT Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
BIBLE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was a messy situation. I think David felt extremely betrayed. David told me that he felt of Lou a...
NIKKI SYMINGTON I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
ADOLF GALLAND I warn you, sir, I am more than skilled in deadly combat,” I said, hoping that was something someo...
TARUN SHANKER Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on h...
APRILYNNE PIKE This is a novel concept as far as a cause for obesity. If these viruses are contributing to obesity,...
LEAH WHIGHAM My reasoning was okay but I was misguided in not talking to David
JENSEN BUTTON Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
DAVID LEVITHAN Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it ...
PETER YORK We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
to see world from other people's perspective.
TOBA BETA (David Harris) was mauled, he was gasping for air.
OSCAR TORRES So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and ...
BIBLE Could we have physically moved combat forces into an American city, without the governor's consent, ...
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UFUOMA APOKI I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to ...
SIGMUND FREUD David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
DAVE FOLEY And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amale...
BIBLE It's not surprising that they're not skating at this point. They'll both see Dr. David Reid (Thursda...
CRAIG MACTAVISH I could understand the league's point of view, but I'd like to put Stu Jackson or David Stern or one...
LARRY BROWN His point [however] was that David [Duchovny] and Gillian [Anderson] are getting older, so how far b...
CHRIS CARTER The penalty of leadership is loneliness.
H. WHEELER ROBINSON I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real...
RICK YANCEY There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myse...
ERIC WAREHEIM I was left on cold, starving to loneliness. And now continue calling me weird!!
ARDIT BALISHA People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.
MASASHI KISHIMOTO I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
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DAVID CHASE I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
DAVID BRAINERD The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T...
DAVID LEVITHAN You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
LARRY DAVID